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IN RE KRAH (DECD); YANKYERAAH AND OTHERS
V.
OSEI-TUTU AND ANOTHER

(1989) JELR 68089 (SC)

Supreme Court 22 Mar 1989 Ghana
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- The case involves a dispute over the will of Nana Apraku Krah, who bequeathed three cocoa farms to his grandson. The plaintiffs, part of the Bedenfini family, argue that the farms were family properties and that Krah was incapable of maki

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Judges:ADADE JSC,TAYOR JSC,FRANCOIS JSC,WUAKU JSC ,ESSIEM JA
Counsel:JAMES AHENKORAH FOR THE APPELLANTS; KWAKU BAAH (WITH HIM BOSOMPRAH) FOR THE RESPONDENTS.
Other Citations:[1989-90] 2 GLR 638

WUAKU JSC

Nana Apraku Krah died testate on 4 February 1983. By his will exhibit B, executed on 22 December 1982 he devised “three separate cocoa farms situate at a place commonly known and called `Sukusuku’ in the Western Region” to the testator’s grandson, the third defendant-appellant herein, as the sole beneficiary. The three farms were fully described in the will, exhibit B. The deceased, Nana Apraku Krah, had in an earlier will executed on 8 January 1977 devised to his ten children his properties numbering ten. That will is tendered as ten children his properties numbering ten. That will is tendered as exhibit A. By clause 2 (a) of exhibit A he bequeathed to his family absolutely and forever his deposit or savings account with the Ghana Commercial Bank, Berekum, and by 2 (b) he proved that

“all my other properties both immovable and movable except and excluding (a) those already herein given to my said children as above indicated and my cocoa farm situated and being at Sukusuku on …

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