IN RE QUINTIN-COFIE (DECD.); QUINTIN-COFIE vs. QUINTIN-COFIEAND ANOTHER

JUDGMENT OF CECILIA KORANTENG-ADDOW J. On 15 October 1979, this court granted an application by the applicants and ordered joint letters of administration to issue. The applicants are all children of the deceased and the persons appointed by the family to succeed to the estate of their deceased father. The order for the grant was made subject to notices. While the notices were being posted, the third applicant filed a motion seeking an “order to strike out his name as the third applicant who sought to administer the estate . . .” He made this move because he said he had discovered that in the inventory exhibited with the application for the letters of administration his own house had been listed as forming part of his late father’s estate. This is house No. 275, West Korle Gonno Estate, Accra. He has applied to be relieved so that he can take steps against the estate to protect his interest in the house. The motion has been resisted by the other successors on grounds f...