[2012]DLCA6486 • June 11, 2012 • Court of Appeal
HANNA BUCKMAN & 3 ORS. vs. PATRICK ANKUMAYI & ANOR.
ACQUAYE, J. A This is an appeal against the judgment delivered on 18th June 2011 by an Accra High Court against the defendants/appellants. The plaintiffs issued a writ of summons claiming against the four administrators of the late Kojo Amoah. a) A declaration that the late Kojo Amoah in his life time told the plaintiffs and his family both immediate and extended that in appreciation of the financial assistance towards the putting up of House No. B 455/21, North Kaneshie by the late mother of the plaintiffs, the said house should be given to them. b) An order directed at the defendants to vest House No. B 445/21 in the plaintiffs in accordance with the wishes and directives of the late Kojo Armah. The plaintiffs/respondents case was that their late mother was the uterine sister of the late Kojo Amoah. Their mother died when they were young and Kojo Amoah adopted and took them to live with his wife and children in Accra. He looked after them as his children and when he could n...