JUDGEMENT
WUAKU J.S.C.
This appeal raises a very simple but an important issue. The issue is, can a testator who by his will devised his two self-acquired properties, one to each of his two wives and had made known the devises to the wives and accepted customary thank-offerring (aseda) from the wives, by revoking the first will in a subsequent will prevent the wives from taking the properties for which they had given the customary aseda?
The facts found by the learned trial judge which I fully indorse are supported by the evidence. In 1968 the testator devised an estate house at Kaneshie, Accra to one of his wives, the plaintiff-appellant, and the children begotten by her to the testator. The testator devised his building at Konongo to his other wife, the co-defendant, and her children and other children of the testator begotten by a third wife whom he had earlier divorced. The testator gave a copy of the will to each of his said wives who, in pursuance of the devises to them, accompani…