[1972]DLHC2411 • June 30, 1972 • High Court
QUARTEY vs. QUARTEY AND ANOTHER
The petitioner and respondent were married both customarily in 1957 and by Christian rites in 1964. After four years and four children, the petitioner filed for dissolution of marriage on the ground of adultery by the respondent with the co-respondent, Plockey. The petitioner alleged adultery occurred on 18 January 1966 at Asylum Down, Accra, supported by a confession from the respondent. The respondent denied the adultery, claimed the confession was made under duress, and cross-petitioned for dissolution on the same ground alleging the petitioner’s adultery with Martha Abbey.
read moreThe parties this cause were joined together as husband and wife in holy wedlock at the Ridge Church, Accra, on 26 December 1964. Prior to that ceremony the respondent-wife had been customarily married to the petitioner-husband in 1957. Some four years after the solemnisation of their marriage, and exactly four children later, the husband presented this petition seeking for a dissolution of this union upon the single, urgent and serious ground of adultery against his wife, the mother of his children, his petition averring inter alia as follows: “(7) That the respondent has since the celebration of the marriage committed adultery with the co-respondent, Plockey. (8) That on 18 January 1966, the respondent committed adultery with the co-respondent at Asylum Down, Accra.” After he had made clear these particulars as to the date and place of this grave matrimonial offence, the petitioner sought to set the seal of authority upon his allegations with the following statement, “(9) ...