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THE REGISTERED TRUSTEES FRIENDS OF CHRIST MINISTRY
V.
KWABENA BOATENG

(2017) JELR 108352 (HC)

High Court 10 Mar 2017 Ghana
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- The plaintiff ministry was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee under the Companies Act, 1960. - The late Kwaku Boateng, a lawyer and former Attorney-General of Ghana, gave a part of his land to the plaintiff ministry for its ch

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Suit Number:SUIT NO. BMISC/7/2013
Judges:K.A. GYIMAH, J
Counsel:CLEMENT SAMBO ESQ. FOR YAW ANOKYE FRIMPONG ESQ. FOR PLAINTIFF

JUDGMENT

GYIMAH, J.

The plaintiff’s case is that the late Kwaku Boateng (deceased), a lawyer by  profession and once an Attorney-General of Ghana in the 1st Republic sometime  in the late 1990s together with others incorporated the Plaintiff ministry as a  company limited by guarantee under the Companies, Act, 1960 (Act 179). The  deceased served as the chairman of the Executive Council of the plaintiff ministry  until his death in 2006 when he was substituted by one Reverend Stephen Mante.  The deceased in his lifetime gave a part of his land situate at McCarthy Hill (and  described in relief (ix) of the writ of summons) to the plaintiff for its church  activities and this gift was confirmed by the deceased in his last will and testament  dated 19th April 2005 which was admitted to probate on 17th March 2009. 

The plaintiff asserts that on the death of the deceased, the defendant, one of the  surviving children of the deceased and who was at all material times present at the reading o…

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