RUDOLPH NORTEY OTOO & ANOR vs. NORA ODOFOLEY OTOO & ANOR

DZAMEFE, JA This is an appeal from the judgment of the Accra High Court dated 2nd May, 2012. The brief facts of this case, as stated by the plaintiff’s hereinafter referred to as the appellants, are that the appellants are the administrators of the estate of one Susannah Korkoi Otoo by virtue of Letters of Administration granted them by the Accra High Court on 15th May, 2003. They are the children of the deceased and also beneficiaries of her estate and reside in Accra. The defendants hereinafter referred to as the respondents are the executors of the last Will and testament of one Joseph Kabufio Otoo and also reside in Accra. According to the appellants, in or about 1984, Susana Korkoi Otoo petitioned for the dissolution of her marriage to Joseph Kabufio Otoo, her husband, in the High Court. One of the reliefs was the settlement on her a property situated at Kotobabi, Accra. It is the appellants’ case that in course of the divorce suit, counsel for the husband, Mr. Mingle ...