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WILLIAM BINEY AKAKPO & ANOR
V.
ERIC CHIANI AKAKPO & ANOR

(2024) JELR 114486 (HC)

High Court 7 Mar 2024 Ghana
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- The plaintiffs challenged the validity of the purported Will of the late Helen Ocansey, seeking to have it declared fraudulent and void, the grant of probate set aside, and a declaration of intestacy subject to PNDCL 111, along with vario

Case Details

Suit Number:PA/0651/2022
Judges:HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE SARAH ARYEE (MRS.)
Counsel:KWABENA KYEI POAKWOA HOLDING BRIEF OF EDDIE YAO HARVEY FOR THE PLAINTIFFS THOMAS HUGHES FOR THE DEFENDANT
Location:Accra

RULING

The Writ in this suit was issued on the 10th of March 2022.

The 2nd plaintiff subsequently sought to substitute the 1st plaintiff who had died.

The Writ was amended on the 1st of February 2023 and on 29th March 2023 seeking the following reliefs:

i. An order to set aside the purported Will and testament of the late Helen Ocansey was forged, and fraudulent and therefore null and void and of no legal effect

ii. An order to set aside the grant of probate made by the High Court on the 25th day of March, 2019 of the contents of the supposed Will of the late Helen Ocansey on the grounds that same was fraudulently forged and or procured

iii. An order directed at the defendants herein to account for all assets and or items of the estate that they have upon the strength of the probate granted them on the 25th day of March, 2019 dissipated or utilized

iv. A declaration that the purported Will of the late Helen Ocansey having been forged and fraudulent; therefore means that the deceased estate f…

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