JUDGMENT
Koranteng-Addow J. This is an interesting case in which an originating summons has been taken out by Mr. Akainyah, learned counsel for the plaintiff, for the court to interpret the word "furniture" which appeared in a testamentary disposition. The main point is to pronounce whether these items:
one very old Arabella radiogram with records, one television set in wooden cabinet with antenna fixed to roof of house, and one very old Bosch refrigerator would fall within the definition of "furniture" in law, for by his last will and testament, Opanin Kwadjo Fordjuor of Bomso No. 2, near Kumasi, has bequeathed among other things "five rooms in my house including the furniture to my wife Abena Adomaa absolutely." Those items mentioned above were in those rooms.
Mr. Akainyah cited to the court and relied on a number of authorities on the subject ranging from definitions in legal lexicons such as Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (3rd ed.) and to such reported cases there referred to on the su…