OMARI SASU J.
This is an appeal by the defendant-appellant against the decision of the Family Tribunal, Accra dated 17 December 1986 which decision was entered in favour of the plaintiff-respondent.
The substance of the decision of the said family tribunal is that the appellant is the father of the respondent’s child named Kwesi Nyan Quarshie and since the appellant has failed to maintain his said son since December 1983 he, the appellant, is liable to the respondent’s claim.
From the records the facts that gave rise to the original suit before the Family Tribunal, Accra are in the main not in dispute and may be stated briefly as follows: Towards the end of 1980 the parties were married under customary law and they cohabited in the matrimonial home provided by the appellant in Accra.
On 11 October 1981 the respondent delivered a baby boy and the appellant performed the naming ceremony of the child who was named Kwesi Nyan Quarshie after the appellant’s grandfather. The appellant followed…