[2024]DLHC17753May 24, 2024High Court

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ISAAC BEN JONES ALIAS KOJO YARTEL (DECEASED) AND IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION BY: CADIEL TAWIAH & ISAAC NTSIM JONES AND IN THE MATTER OF CEVEAT BY: RICHMOND YARTEL JONES, MRS NELLY OPARE, BERNARD JONES, IVY JONES AND ROBERT BENJAMIN JNR: CAVEATORS

RULING This ruling is in respect of a caveat filed by the Caveators herein against the grant of Letters of Administration with Will Annex applied by the Applicants herein. Applicants’ case is that they are children of the testator and that the other children of the testator are Edwin Kojo Jones, Roberts Ben Jones (now deceased), Isaac Ntsim Jones and Cadiel Tawiah Jones. Applicants’ application for Letters of Administration with Will annex is hinged on the fact that they are beneficiaries of the Will of their late father and that they should be granted letters of administration so that they would legitimately have their share of their father’s estate. It is their contention that since the death of their father on 2nd July, 1986 they have not gone through the process for their share of the property to be given to them per their father’s Will. The Caveators’ case is that the testator, the late Isaac Ben Jones alias Kojo Yartel was their grandfather. That in his Will he n...