BAAH vs. BAAH AND ANOTHER [1973]DLHC2365

Date	1973-03-22
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1973]DLHC2365

ANNAN J.A.

W. A. N. ADUMUA-BOSSMAN FOR THE PLAINTIFF-APPLICANT.

DR .W. C. EKOW DANIELS FOR THE DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS.

[1973]DLHC2365
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >BAAH<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;vs. <o:p></o:p>BAAH AND ANOTHER <o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT,
ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[1973]
2 GLR 8<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DATE:
22 MARCH 1973.<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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W. A. N. ADUMUA-BOSSMAN FOR THE
PLAINTIFF-APPLICANT.<o:p></o:p>

DR .W. C. EKOW DANIELS FOR THE
DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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ANNAN J.A.<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>JUDGMENT OF ANNAN J.A.<o:p></o:p>On 30
June 1972 the plaintiff-applicant Mrs. Baah, took out a writ of summons
claiming declarations:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">“(1) That
she is entitled absolutely and beneficially to one equal half of each and every
asset, movable and immovable, standing in the name of her late husband C. C. K.
Baah (deceased) at the date of his death; <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(2) That
she is entitled absolutely and beneficially to one equal half of all the
authorised share capital and profits of each and every one of the companies
comprising the Baah Group of Companies; <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(3) That
the will of the late C. C. K. Baah (deceased) proved by the defendants on 17
February 1972 upon its true construction takes effect only subject to the
foregoing declarations; (4) Such further or other relief as in the
circumstances may be just.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The gist
of the applicant’s case in the substantive suit is her claim that almost “all
the immovable property and worldly goods” of herself and her late husband as
well as the paid-up share capital, assets and undertaking of the companies run
by the late C.C.K. Baah derive “mediately or immediately and wholly from the
undistributed profits of a business undertaking jointly sponsored and conducted
between 1950 and 1951-52 and subsequent thereto, by husband and wife.”<o:p></o:p>The
applicant therefore contends that she is, and from 1950 has always been
entitled in equity to one equal half of all the property standing in the name
of Baah and that her late husband was at all material times a trustee of such
half share for her benefit. Consequently the applicant maintains that the dispositions
made in the will of her husband are and always were unlawful or in breach of trust
in so far as they went beyond one equal half of all the property.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
defendants (respondents herein) entered appearance to the action on 18 July
1972. A day before then the applicant took out a summons for administration of
property under Order 60, r. 40 (1) and (2) of the Supreme [High] Court (Civil
Procedure) Rules, 1954 (L.N. 140A). In that application she asked that the
undermentioned sums of money be paid to her namely:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(1) All the arrears of rent from
1 January 1972 to 30 June 1972 purporting to be devised to the
plaintiff-applicant under clause 3 page 2 of the will and as from 30 June 1972
rents of the said property from month to month or otherwise periodically until
judgment or further order herein.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(2) All arrears from January 1972
to 30 June 1972 of the legacy of ¢100.00 per month purporting to be bequeathed
to the plaintiff-applicant under clause 14 (a) page 4 of the will and after 30
June from month to month until judgment or further order herein.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(3) The sum of ¢100.00 being the
amount of a bearer </main>