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IN RE AMARTEIFIO (DECD.); AMARTEIFIO
V.
AMARTEIFIO

(1981) JELR 64794 (HC)

High Court 10 Feb 1981 Ghana
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- The case involves a dispute over the interpretation of clause 6 of Bob Amarteifio's will. - Bob Amarteifio had seven children from two different wives, with the plaintiff being the son of one wife and the defendants being the children of

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Judges:STRIGGNER-SCOTT J.
Counsel:ADUANI FOR THE PLAINTIFFS; MARFO FOR THE DEFENDANTS.
Other Citations:[1982-83] GLR 1137

STRIGGNER-SCOTT J.

In his lifetime Bob Amarteifio (deceased) had seven children, it would appear by two different wives, the plaintiff being the son of the one wife, and the defendants the children of another wife called Rosina Amarteifio (also deceased). In his will dated July 1947, and admitted to probate in 1954, the year of his death, Bob Amarteifio appointed the plaintiff, his eldest son, an executor under the will, and all his children beneficiaries under the said will. One of the assets forming part of his estate was a building designated as 602/RL 3.

At the time of his death, the testator, Bob Amarteifio, had leased the said building to U.A.C. By clause 6 of his will, he directed that the balance of rents accruing from his property annually should be distributed equally between the devisees under his will—that is his children — but not until his wife Rosina Amarteifio, the defendants’ mother had been paid 20 pounds of such rents annually. It is the plaintiff’s case that clause …

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