BARNES vs. BARNES

The wife-petitioner and her respondent-husband were married on Christmas day in 1966 at the Anglican Christ Church at Cape Coast. The evidence shows that soon after the marriage the petitioner and the respondent settled at Kumasi. There is one issue of the marriage, a girl, called Emma Barnes who was born on 20 October 1967. It does seem that the marriage of this couple was blissful and happy until May 1968, when trouble started to set in to destroy the wedding vow taken before the alter of God where the man had promised the wife to comfort her and, forsaking all others, to keep to her only so long as both of them shall live. On or about 18 May 1968, the petitioner returned from Cape Coast where she had given birth to their daughter only to be told by the respondent that she must pack up her belongings and leave the matrimonial home because he was married to another woman. Though this second wife was not in the matrimonial home there was a photograph of the respondent and this second w...