KOSE AND ANOTHER vs. ACQUAH AND OTHERS

JUDGMENT OF AKOTO-BAMFO J. In this application the plaintiff-applicants (hereinafter referred to as the applicants) pray for an order attaching the bodies of the defendant-respondents (hereinafter referred to as the respondents) for disobeying various orders made by the court since December 1991. It is, in my view, necessary to give a resume of the events leading to the present application. On 19 September 1991 the applicants took out a writ of summons claiming for: (1) an order that the first and second respondents hand over keys belonging to their deceased father to them for inventory to be taken; (2) an order that the third respondent hand over cattle in his possession to the applicants for distribution; and (3) an order restraining the respondents from interfering with the administration of the estate. The gist of the case for the applicants as per their statement of claim is that their late father, Kweku Ghansah, died testate; his children, the applicants, were appointed ...