Sikes v. Sikes

Z. S. Sikes, as next friend of William Sibley Sikes, a minor, brought a petition for temporary and permanent alimony against Robert II. Sikes, the father of the child, alleging that the defendant had abandoned his child and that the child’s mother was dead. The defendant filed a demurrer and a motion to dismiss the petition, and upon the hearing of the same an amendment to the petition was offered, in which the plaintiff or petitioner was styled “William Sibley Sikes by his next friend Z. S. Sikes.” Counsel for defendant objected to the allowance of this amend-, ment, on the ground that by it…