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OSUMANU
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OSUMANU AND ANOTHER

(1996) JELR 69513 (CA)

Court of Appeal 12 Dec 1996 Ghana
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- The Court of Appeal affirmed that the plaintiff (wife) and first defendant (husband) were joint owners of house No K 23, South Suntreso, Kumasi, by virtue of the plaintiff's financial contribution and her act of redeeming the property fro

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Judges:LAMPTEY JA, ESSILFIE-BONDZIE JA,BENIN JA
Counsel:DARKWA-DWAMENA FOR THE SECOND DEFENDANT-APPELLANT; DICK ANYADI FOR THE PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT.
Other Citations:[1995-96] 1 GLR 672

BENIN JA.

Madam Agyina Osumanu, the plaintiff-respondent (herein-after called the plaintiff) sued her husband, Atta Osumanu, the first defendant, and Jacob Asuama Yeboah, the second defendant-appellant (hereinafter called the second defendant), at the High Court, Kumasi by a writ of summons dated 28 February 1986. On the writ was indorsed the following reliefs:

(a). “A declaration that house No K 23, South Suntreso, Kumasi was jointly owned by the plaintiff and the first defendant herein.
(b). An order setting aside the purported sale of house No K 23, South Suntreso, Kumasi by the first defendant to the second defendant as being without the knowledge and consent of the plaintiff.
(c). An order for perpetual injunction to restrain the defendants, their servants, agents and workmen from interfering with the plaintiff’s possession of the said house.”

The plaintiff’s case as pleaded was as follows: She, a trader, and her husband, a driver, purchased this house in dispute on hire purchase ba…

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