EDWARD WIREDU J.: The plaintiff in this case is a married woman and a prominent member of the Catholic Mboa Kuw a benevolent religious society in Cape Coast. She is by vocation a seamstress and a trader in textiles. On the evidence she seems to enjoy a prominent position and respect in both her family of origin and her marital family and also of the said Mboa Kuw of which society until the last elections she was its president. She is also the mother of about three children. The University College of Cape Coast (herein called the defendants), is an institution in the same town and as its name implies is one of the highest academic forums of learning in Ghana.
Some time in the month of June 1971 the defendants published and advertised several copies of the plaintiff’s photographs in the form of postcards printed at their central photographic studio and exhibited them for sale at the university bookshop at a price of twenty pesewas each. At the back of each postcard were the following: “T…