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AYENIM
V.
POKU

(1976) JELR 67293 (HC)

High Court 30 Mar 1976 Ghana
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- This is an appeal case from the District Court Grade II, Tarkwa, dated 3 February 1975. - The plaintiff is the daughter of the late Kwasi Dormang and claims that her father died testate, leaving his farm and two bedrooms to her and her tw

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Judges:QUASHIE-SAM J.
Counsel:J. MERCER FOR THE APPELLANT; MISS LUCY BLAY FOR THE RESPONDENT.

QUASHIE-SAM J.: This is an appeal by the defendant from the judgment of the District Court Grade II, Tarkwa, dated 3 February 1975. The facts are quite simple and mostly not in dispute. The plaintiff is the daughter of the late Kwasi Dormang of Huni Valley. He died possessed of a farm and a house. This was conceded by the defendant. It was the case of the plaintiff that her father died testate, demising in his will: (1) his farm, and (2) his two bedrooms which he occupied during his lifetime, to her and her two brothers, namely, Yaw Nkrumah and Kwame Bedu; that her father died in 1972; that on the 40th day after her father’s death she and her brother produced the will to the family but the family headed by the defendant refused to accept it; that the defendant had driven her and her labourers away from the farm given to her and her brothers under the will. She tendered the alleged will as exhibit A and closed her case thereby.

The defendant’s case was nothing different as to the facts.…

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