ASANTEWAA vs. ANSONG [1992]DLHC1972

Date	1992-07-24
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1992]DLHC1972

GBADEGBE J.

ANIN YEBOAH FOR THE PLAINTIFFS.

NANA ASSIBEY YEBOAH FOR THE DEFENDANT.

[1992]DLHC1972
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color:#00B0F0">ASANTEWAA<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B0F0">ANSONG<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, KOFORIDUA]<o:p></o:p>[1992] 1 GLR 550<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>ANIN YEBOAH FOR THE PLAINTIFFS.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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NANA ASSIBEY YEBOAH FOR THE DEFENDANT. <o:p></o:p>

</div>JUDGMENT OF GBADEGBE J.<o:p></o:p>In this action, the plaintiffs seek:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;
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border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(a).&nbsp; “A declaration that house No.
V. 139 situate and being at Old Estate known as Volta House was the property of
the late George Ansong. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(b).&nbsp; A further declaration that the
devise of the said property by the late George Ansong to the plaintiffs and his
other wife and children were proper as the property was his own at the time of
his death. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;
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border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(c).&nbsp; An order for perpetual
injunction restraining the defendant, his agents, assigns and privies from
dealing with the said property in any way adverse to the interest of the plaintiffs
and the other beneficiaries. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
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mso-border-shadow:yes">(d).
Further or other reliefs.”<o:p></o:p>The action herein from the evidence is between a mother and some
of her children as the plaintiffs and her eldest male child as the defendant.
The defendant and the second to fifth plaintiffs are uterine brothers and
sisters, having all been begotten by the first plaintiff and the decedent
hereinbefore mentioned, George Ansong.<o:p></o:p>In the lifetime of the said decedent, he put up a house numbered
as V. 139, situate at Koforidua. Before putting up the said house the decedent
had acquired the land on which the building stands in the name of one Michael
Asante (see exhibit 3). He had also used the said land as a collateral to
obtain a loan from the Barclays Bank (Ghana) Ltd. (see exhibit 4). These two exhibits
were later to be deposited by him with the Social Security Bank, following a
loan which he had contracted from the said bank through its branch at
Koforidua. Before he died, however, the decedent made provision for the
distribution of his assets by means of a testamentary disposition (see exhibit
B). In the said disposition he devised house No. V. 139 to his wives, the first
plaintiff herein, and the first defendant witness and their children in common.
It appears that this last act of his as well as the prior acts evidenced by
exhibits 3 and 4 have provoked the issue of the writ of summons herein.<o:p></o:p>The defendant upon service of the writ of summons on him entered a
defence in which he counterclaimed as follows:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;
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border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “Declaration of title to house
No. V. 139, Koforidua.<o:p></o:p>