KNUDSEN vs. KNUDSEN [1973]DLHC2290

Date	1973-12-04
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1973]DLHC2290

ABOAGYE J.

R. K TAY FOR AMOO-LAMPTEY FOR THE PETITIONER.

R. K KORSAH (AGBESI WITH HIM) FOR THE RESPONDENT CROSS-PETITIONER.

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153">&nbsp;</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">[</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">DATE:</span></i><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
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</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">4 DECEMBER 1973.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">R. K TAY
FOR AMOO-LAMPTEY FOR THE PETITIONER.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">R. K
KORSAH (AGBESI WITH HIM) FOR THE RESPONDENT CROSS-PETITIONER.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:
yes"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">The
petitioner and the respondent were married at the office of the Registrar of
Marriages, Accra, on 31 August 1957. They then lived in Tafo in the Eastern
Region where the respondent practised medicine at the local hospital. In 1962,
the parties moved from Ghana and lived in Denmark up to 1970 when they moved to
live in England. From 1972 to March 1973, the respondent was in Nairobi, Kenya,
working for the flying doctor services. The petitioner was resident in Ghana
during the period that the respondent was in Kenya. In March, this year, the
respondent was asked by his employers to resign his post and he flew back to
his country, Denmark. It had been arranged that the petitioner who was then
with him in Kenya was to fly back to Ghana. Instead of the petitioner coming
back to Ghana, she borrowed money from the Ghana High Commission in Nairobi and
flew to Denmark to join the respondent. The parties spent last Easter together
with their three children in Denmark. On 13 May 1973, they all flew to Ghana
and lived together in Accra. They continued to live together up to about 12
October this year, when the respondent was arrested on an absconding warrant
issued at the instance of the petitioner or her solicitor. The respondent was
at the same time served with a copy of the petitioner’s petition for divorce.
On 19 November 1973, the petitioner’s petition was withdrawn and struck out.
Mr. Korsah for the respondent then indicated that his client would pursue the
prayers set out in his answer filed on 18 October 1973. The first prayer is
that the marriage between him and the petitioner be dissolved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:
yes"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">He
narrated various acts of nagging, teasing, assaults and extravagance committed
by the petitioner since they got married. According to the respondent the
marriage broke down from its very inception when they were at Tafo. The
petitioner made his life at Tafo most unhappy, falsely accusing him that he was
flirting with some of his nurses. The petitioner sometimes went to the extent
of assaulting some of the nurses. In Denmark too the petitioner became jealous
of the relationship between the respondent and his relatives with whom she
would not co-operate. There is evidence from the respondent that throughout
their stay in England the petitioner was violent and extremely extravagant. She
destroyed most of the respondent’s property including furniture, a
slide-projector, hunting trophies and some medical books. The petitioner used
to fly from London to Ghana and back at will, all at the expense of the
respondent. When the respondent was in employment in Kenya the petitioner visited
him against the advice of the respondent and then wrote to the respondent’s
employers that he was not interested in his work. This caused the employers to
demand the resignation of the respondent in March this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>