NYARKOA vs. MANSU

JUDGMENT OF ARCHER J. The parties in this suit were customarily married for about fourteen years before the marriage was dissolved on 2 March 1966. There were four children born during the marriage. When the wife was leaving the matrimonial home at Nyakrom after the dissolution of the marriage, she took away with her the two younger children, namely, Kofi Gyasi Mansu then four-and-a-half years old and Kwasi Addae Mansu then two years and two months. The husband after an unsuccessful attempt to regain custody of the children issued a writ of summons at the Swedru District Court claiming from the wife and the wife’s new husband called Dravie, custody of the two children. When the matter came on for hearing Dravie was struck out from the suit. The wife’s contention was that the two children were the issue of an adulterous association with Dravie while her marriage with the husband was subsisting and that Dravie was the father of the children. She maintained that after seven years of ...