[1967]DLCA1454 • March 13, 1967 • Court of Appeal
ASHONG vs. ASHONG
The case arose from a summons filed by Mrs. Juliana Ashong against her husband, Mr. D. C. Ashong, seeking an order for reasonable maintenance payments due to wilful neglect by the husband. The trial judge ordered the husband to pay maintenance at specified rates, which the husband appealed.
read moreJUDGMENT OF AMISSAH J.A. This is an appeal from a decision of Prempeh J., given on 1 March 1963 (unreported). It arises out of a summons issued by one Mrs. Juliana Ashong against her husband Mr. D. C. Ashong. By that summons she prayed the court that it should order her husband, who had wilfully neglected to provide reasonable maintenance for her, to make such payment to her for her maintenance as may be just. After reading the affidavit in the matter including one on the annual income and expenditure of Mr. Ashong and hearing the oral evidence of both parties, and arguments, the judge ruled that Mr. Ashong should pay the sum of £G115 representing maintenance for Mrs. Ashong at £G10 per month from the date of the filing of the petition until the date of the ruling and thereafter at the rate of £G20 per month. Against this ruling Mr. Ashong has now appealed. He shall hereafter be referred to as the appellant, the expression respondent being reserved for his wife, Mrs. Ashong. ...