CECILIA AKOSUA TETTEY & 3 ORS
V.
CEPHAS KOFI TETTEY (DECD)

KUSI-APPIAH, J.A.

The defendants/appellants hereinafter called the defendants, are the children of the late Bonifacious Tettey who died on 15th January, 1994. Upon the death of their father, the defendants applied for Letters of Administration to administer the estate of their deceased father. But before even the application was granted, the plaintiffs/respondents, referred to here simply as the plaintiffs who are sisters of the said Bonifacious Tettey had put in a caveat against the issue of Letters of Administration on ground that the Trevi Hohoe house included in the inventory by the defendants was not the self acquired property of their late father and that it belonged to the plaintiffs late father, Afli Tettey who died in 1947. Subsequently, the application (for letters of administration) was granted by the High Court, Ho to the defendants, excluding two houses (at Akpafu Adorkor and Trevi Hohoe) which were found to be in dispute.

Prior to the grant, the plaintiffs had issued a wri…