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PHILIP KOFI ACHEAMPONG & EBENEZER ADU GYAMFI
V.
MONICA BOATENG

(2016) JELR 108390 (HC)

High Court 28 Jan 2016 Ghana
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- The case revolves around the dispute over the administration of the estate of the deceased, Emmanuel Obeng Akrofi. The plaintiffs, Philip Kofi Acheampong and Ebenezer Adu Gyamfi, brothers of the deceased, applied for Letters of Administra

Case Details

Suit Number:BMISC 710/2012
Judges:BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (J)
Counsel:NII KWEI AMASSAH FOR PLAINTIFFS; EBO PAITSOO FOR DEFENDANT.

JUDGMENT

TETTEH-CHARWAY, J.

The history of this case as agreed upon by Counsel for the parties is that  the plaintiffs applied for Letters of Administration to administer the estate  of their brother, Ebenezer Obeng Akrofi, who died intestate. Claiming that she was the wife of the deceased, the defendant caveated and applied to  be joined as an administrator of the deceased’s estate. The plaintiffs  resisted her application on the ground that the deceased allegedly divorced  the defendant before his death. To determine whether the defendant was  the wife of the deceased at the time of his death and whether she qualified  to be joined to the plaintiffs as an administrators of the deceased’s estate,  the plaintiffs filed this suit. 

Briefly, the facts of this case are that the first plaintiff, Philip Kofi  Acheampong, is a brother and customary successor of Emmanuel Obeng  Akrofi (deceased) while the second plaintiff, Ebenezer Adu Gyamfi, is the  first plaintiff’s older brother. The defen…

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