QUASHIE-IDUN J.
The plaintiff and her brother the late C. A. Mensah had quarrelled over a house known as No. D219J3 Hansen Road, Accra, during the lifetime of the late C. A. Mensah. The dispute was settled by an arbitration and the property was partitioned between the plaintiff and C. A. Mensah. The plaintiff occupied her portion of the premises.
The quarrel between the plaintiff and C. A. Mensah did not end with the arbitration and partitioning of the premises. Thirty years before C. A. Mensah died the plaintiff performed a custom known in Ga as "Tako mli mfo," which is interpreted to mean “severance of family connections" between the parties. There is ample evidence that this ceremony was performed by Okaikor. The evidence is that in performing the custom the plaintiff stated that from that date she would have nothing to do with her brother and that if she died her brother should not attend her funeral, and that if the brother died she would not attend his burial. The deceased C. A. …