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SCHANDORF
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SCHANDORF AND COFIE

(1962) JELR 83437 (HC)

High Court 5 Mar 1962 Ghana
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Judges:ACOLATSE J.
Counsel:E.N. Moore for petitioner-respondent. Apatu-Plange for respondent-petitioner.
Location:Accra
Other Citations:[1962] 1 GLR 133 - 136

JUDGMENT

ACOLATSE, J.

In this case the husband, the petitioner herein, presented his petition filed on the 30th September, 1961 against the respondent, the wife herein, for restitution of conjugal rights. The petitioner desires that the respondent shall return to cohabit with him and is willing to render her conjugal rights and prays the court that the respondent do return to him and render him conjugal rights and any further relief that the court may deem just.

The wife in answer to the petition alleged cruelty and adultery against the husband in bar and prays for dissolution of her marriage with the husband on those grounds with other reliefs.

The petitioner replied to the wife's answer and admitted that he committed the adultery with the co-respondent but says that by the respondent's wilful refusal to return to cohabitation with him since April, 1960, she conducted to the said adultery by her own act of desertion.

The marriage between the petitioner and the respondent was celebrated i…

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