JUDGEMENT
APALOO J.A.
This appeal concerns the succession to the estate of a man by name Kwabena Bempong who died at Kintampo in June 1952.
The late Bempong's maternal ancestry is traceable to Ashanti but the evidence shows that he was born to a woman called Ama Odurowaa at Anyinam where he lived all his life. The deceased went to Kintampo when he was afflicted with illness and the evidence is, that he went there to receive medical treatment. His illness did not apparently respond to treatment and he succumbed to it there. His remains were brought home to Anyinam and interred there. The cost of the conveyance of the corpse from Kintampo to Anyinam was paid by some members of the Bretuo clan while the cost of the coffin and other burial expenses were met by the deceased's son Apraku and some of his relations.
The fact that the funeral expenses were paid by two families neither of which claimed blood relationship to each other was a sad foreboding of the succession to the late Bempong. A we…