KWAMI vs. AMUSAH

On 5 June 1973, the plaintiff-respondent to this appeal (hereafter referred to simply as the plaintiff) caused to be issued out of the Swedru District Court Grade II a summons against the defendants claiming ¢850 damages. The present appeal was brought by the first defendant. The nature of the plaintiff’s claim is rather a strange one and runs through some six paragraphs as follows: “(1) The plaintiff is the father of Miss Rose Amusah of Agona Kwanyarku to whom the first defendant in accordance with Agona native custom paid and performed the marriage since eight years ago. (2) That the first defendant had stayed with the said Rose Amusah as wife and has had two children with her. (3) On Saturday 17 February 1973, George Kwami and B. K. Kwadzo (both defendants herein) came to plaintiff’s house at Kwanyarku to divorce Rose Amusah with two bottles rum (schnapps and Gordons) without prior knowledge of neither Rose Amusah nor plaintiff and also did not assign reasons for such di...