ADDAE vs. ASANTE

This is an appeal against the judgment of the District Court Grade II, Bibiani, presided over by his worship Mr. G. K. Quaye, district magistrate grade II. The defendant’s case was that the plaintiff’s son, John Addae, had sexual intercourse with the defendant’s sister, and a child was born. The plaintiff’s son, by a letter addressed to his father, denied responsibility for the pregnancy, for he said he could not be the father of the child having regard to the time he had sexual intercourse with the sister of the defendant. The defendant referred the matter to an arbitration at which the plaintiff’s first witness, Nana Adomako Ansah, was the president. There were six other members of the arbitration. The subject-matter of the arbitration was that the defendant was claiming certain sums of money from the plaintiff because his son John Addae had put the defendant’s sister in a family way. The arbitrators went into the matter and decided against the defendant and asked him...