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OPOKU BOATENG
V.
ADUNA

(1963) JELR 82257 (HC)

High Court 13 Mar 1963 Ghana
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Judges:APALOO J.
Counsel:Appiah Menka for the appellant. D. S. Effah for Amankwa for the respondent.
Location:Kumasi
Other Citations:[1963] 1 GLR 445 - 448

JUDGEMENT

APALOO J.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Amansie Local Court delivered on the 14th May, 1962. The judgment awarded in favour of the plaintiff against the defendant damages for what I paraphrase to be seduction. The court also ordered in favour of the plaintiff, maintenance in respect of the plaintiff's daughter who has been adjudged to have been made pregnant by the defendant.

The facts of this case are extremely simple and have been found by the local court with extreme clarity. I do not understand the findings made by the local court to be in issue on this appeal. The plaintiff is the father of a young woman called Hanna Oppong. In 1961 she was attending a secondary school at Sanfo. She was in form four. The defendant was, at any rate in 1961, a teacher in the Seventh Day Adventist primary school at Sanfo. He seemed to have been a pupil teacher and was certainly someone who did not appear to have received the benefit of secondary school education.

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