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Atlanta Tri Weekly Journal
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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In Macon, Ga., Sydney Lanier appeals a superior court ruling ordering $40 monthly alimony and $150 fees to wife Peggy Lewis Lanier, claiming drunken incapacity at their 1922 Atlanta wedding; she calls it a fabricated annulment excuse. Wife returns to prominent West Virginia family.
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MACON, Ga., Feb. 2.—Sydney Lanier, through his attorneys, appeal Friday to the supreme court of Georgia for release from the judgment of Judge H. A. Mathews, in Bibb superior court, requiring him to pay alimony of $40 per month and attorney's fees of $150 to Mrs. Peggy Lewis Lanier, of Atlanta, and Huntington, W. Va.
The couple were hurriedly married in Atlanta on November 5, 1922, and their marital troubles have since occupied considerable space in newspapers and Bibb county courts.
Young Lanier claims that he was so drunk at the time of the wedding as to be incapacitated, while the bride alleges that the story of the drinks was invented by Sydney Lanier and his father, Dr. J. D. Lanier as a convenient means of obtaining an annulment.
Mrs. Peggy Lewis Lanier left Macon immediately after the alimony hearing on January 13, and is reported to have returned to West Virginia, where she is said to be a member of a prominent and wealthy family.
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Macon, Ga.; Atlanta; Bibb Superior Court; Huntington, W. Va.; West Virginia
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November 5, 1922; January 13, 1923; February 2, 1923
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Sydney Lanier appeals to the Supreme Court of Georgia against a judgment requiring him to pay $40 monthly alimony and $150 attorney's fees to his wife, Mrs. Peggy Lewis Lanier, claiming he was too drunk to consent to their 1922 marriage; she alleges the drunkenness story was fabricated for annulment. The couple's marital troubles have been widely reported.