IN RE DICKSON ALIAS APPAH (DECD.); ABOAGYE AND ANOTHER vs. QUAYSON AND ANOTHER

JUDGMENT OF OMARI-SASU J. This is an application by Madam Janet Aboagye and Madam Pauline Sarpong to be joined as co-administratrices of the estate of Joseph William Dickson alias Kwesi Appah (deceased) who died intestate on 17 January 1985. According to the affidavits sworn to by the two applicants, each of them was married by the deceased according to Akan customary law at Duayaw Nkwanta in 1975 and each of them has four minor children with the deceased. The present application therefore seeks the joinder of these two widows in their own right and also on behalf of their respective infant children. This application has been opposed by the joint administrators, being the customary successor and a child of the deceased, who were on 26 March 1986 granted letters of administration by this court presided over by my brother Hayfron J. The only reason for the objection is that the head of family of the deceased considers the applicants to be only concubines and not widows of the deceased ...