AMISSAH-ABADOO vs. DANIELS AND OTHERS

JUDGMENT OF OSEI-HWERE J. By the endorsement on his writ the plaintiff’s claim against the defendants is for, “possession of house No. G. 8/2, Tantri Lane, Cape Coast, property of the plaintiff and his family which the defendants have taken possession of against the interest of the plaintiff.” The statement of claim subsequently filed by the plaintiff ran: “(1) by a judgment dated 12 November 1973, house No. G 8/2, Tantri Lane, was adjudged the property of the Abadoo family of which the plaintiff is the present head. (2) The said house consists of three floors with an annexe in which the widow of the late lawyer Abadoo carried on her occupation as a seamstress. (3) An action instituted by the plaintiff to enforce his right to apportion accommodation in the house as against the widow and members of the plaintiff’s family needing accommodation abated with the death of the widow. (4) The plaintiff had reason to believe that after the final funeral rites of the wid...