ABENA MANU vs. KAKRABA AND ANOTHER

JUDGMENT OF BRUCE-LYLE J. This is a claim founded in negligence and on the Fatal Accidents Act of 1846 1(1) in which the plaintiff claims, as mother of one Kwame Boakye (deceased), for her benefit and for the benefit of one Ama Buor, the grandmother and guardian of the said Kwame Boakye (deceased), £G2,000 damages against the first and second defendants jointly and severally for the first defendant’s negligence in carrying the said Kwame Boakye (deceased) by a Volkswagen bus No. AH 8880 whereby the said Kwame Boakye was killed on the Derma-Ankase road on the 20th June, 1961, the second defendant being at all material times the master of the first defendant. The statement of claim was filed with the writ in which the plaintiff supplied all the particulars of negligence and also particulars pursuant to the Fatal Accidents Act, 1846. The first defendant did not enter appearance and on the 25th November, 1961, interlocutory judgment was entered against him. At the trial of...