BOATENG
V.
BOATENG

(1995) JELR 69471 (CA)

Court of Appeal · 12 Apr 1995 · Ghana

CORAM

ADJABENG JA, LAMPTEY JA, LUTTERODT JA

Core Terms ^Beta

evidence

trial judge

dispute

land

yaa donkor

counsel

house

issue

late father

defendant

defendant-respondent

document

said yaa donkor

defendant’s late father

learned trial judge

son j k boateng

appellate court

block house

defendant-respondent’s late father

family property

grounds of appeal

plaintiff-appellant

rejection of this document

said land

trial court

additional grounds

adverse effect

agent of her son

contention of the plaintiff-appellant

counsel’s own words

decision of the court

evidence of pw2

evidence of the defendant-respondent

exhibit ca1

face of this evidence of the plaintiff

failure of the trial judge

first ground

first witness

high court

important question

jonas kofi boateng

original ground

plaintiff’s evidence

portion of the land

rejection of exhibit a

respect of the estate of her late father

respect of the next ground of appeal

support of this claim

supreme court

swish building

ADJABENG JA.

The plaintiff-appellant who is the successor to the defendant-respondent’s late father, Jonas Kofi Boateng, instituted an action at the High Court, Koforidua against the defendant-respondent herein. His claim is for a declaration that house No BT/D7, Koforidua, which the defendant included in the inventory of the letters of administration she obtained in respect of the estate of her late father, was not the self-acquired property of the said deceased but rather family property.

The case put up by the plaintiff was that the land on which the house in dispute was built had been purchased by the deceased’s mother called Yaa Donkor. According to the plaintiff’s evidence, after purchasing the land in dispute, the said Yaa Donkor built a swish building comprising three rooms on a portion of the land and lived therein with her family. She also built a four-room uncompleted structure on the said land; that it was this uncompleted structure which the defendant’s late father with his…

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