JULIANA ANTWI AGYEI (MRS.)
V.
MADAM ADWOA MANU AND OTHERS

(2017) JELR 65897 (CA)

Court of Appeal 24 Oct 2017 Ghana
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- This case involves a dispute over a plot of land with a dwelling house between a daughter-in-law and her mother-in-law and brother-in-law. - The daughter-in-law applied for letters of administration after her husband's death, but her in-l

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Suit Number:CIVIL APPEAL NO.H/18/2017
Judges:K E. K. AYEBI (PRESIDING) JA, GERTRUDE TORKORNOO (MRS.) JA, ANGELINA M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) JA
Counsel:NO LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR APPELLANTS,TONY MMIEH FOR RESPONDENT IN ALL THREE SUITS

JUDGMENT

AYEBI, JA

1. This appeal which was launched on 11th July 2008 is against the judgment of Yaw Appau JA (as he then was) sitting as an additional High Court Judge, delivered on 6th June 2008 in three suits which were consolidated.

2. The subject of dispute amongst the parties now centred on a plot with a dwelling house thereon numbered Plot 14C, Block D, Breman Kumasi-Ashanti. The disputants are a daughter-in-law on the one side against her mother-in-law and brother-in-law on the other. In view of the fact that the appellants are not challenging the judgment on the merits but on the grounds of an error in procedure, it will suffice to state the claims of the parties and their pleadings briefly in each suit and then the trial judge’s overall conclusion on the claim in respect of the house as consolidated.

3. The facts of the case in all three suits is that one Samuel Antwi Agyei, deceased was the husband of Mrs. Juliana Antwi Agyei. The first defendant in the first suit LS. 68/95 an…

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