AGGREY vs. AGGREY AND ANOTHER

JUDGMENT OF ARCHER J. The petitioner seeks dissolution of the marriage between herself and the respondent on the ground of the respondent’s adultery with one Adjowa Kwaboa. The respondent, in his reply and also at the trial, prayed that the marriage should be dissolved and a decree granted in his favour on the ground that the petitioner’s conduct was conducive to the said adultery which the respondent has admitted. The parties were married on 29 December 1956 and lived in the matrimonial home at Yamoransa, near Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana. At the time of the marriage the petitioner was an assistant mass education officer, stationed at Kumasi. Shortly after the marriage she resigned her job at the request of the respondent and lived with the respondent at Yamoransa. The respondent owned the matrimonial home at Yamoransa and kept a store. The petitioner also had a passbook with Messrs. S.C.O.A. and with the passbook acquired good business and earned profit, it was s...