G.M. QUAYE, J.A.
Samuel Asare Konadu (late deceased) was on his death on 8th May 1994, survived by about three or four wives and as many as thirty-two children. The original Plaintiff, Alice Dede, was one of the said surviving spouses, she and the deceased having married on 18th September 1959. The Plaintiff and her husband, the late Samuel Asare Konadu, cohabited in Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi. During the subsistence of the marriage, the couple acquired substantial properties which the Plaintiff listed in her statement of claim as including:
"4 houses on Mac Carthy Hill, Accra; 15 houses making up ANOWUO ESTATES at Kaneshie, Accra; 1 only two storey Building at Oforikrom in Kumasi; 1 only two storey Building at Odorkor, Accra; 2 storey Buildings together with two Estates at Asamang; 2 vacant plots at Mc Carthy Hill, Accra; 15 Vacant plots at Ejisu in Ashanti Region; and 2 Vacant plots at Kentikrono in Kumasi".
The late Samuel Asare Konadu apparently died testate. His last will and codic…