EMMANUEL KWAME NYARKO (PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT) vs. NANA YAW SINTIM AND ALLEN GYIMAH KESSE (DEFENDANTS/RESONDENTS) [2011]DLCA7890

EMMANUEL KWAME NYARKO (PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT) vs. NANA YAW SINTIM AND ALLEN GYIMAH... [2011]DLCA7890

Date	2011-07-21
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. HI/65/2011
Citation No.	[2011]DLCA7890

A. ASARE-KORANG. J.A. (PRESIDING)

ISAAC DUOSE J.A.

E. K. AYEBI J.A.

BEDE ZIEDEN FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT

COUNSEL FOR RESPONDENT ABSENT

[2011]DLCA7890
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >EMMANUEL KWAME NYARKO<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>NANA YAW SINTIM AND ALLEN GYIMAH KESSE<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/RESONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL
APPEAL NO. HI/65/2011&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE:
21ST JULY, 2011<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>BEDE
ZIEDEN FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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COUNSEL
FOR RESPONDENT ABSENT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <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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A.
ASARE-KORANG. J.A. (PRESIDING), ISAAC DUOSE J.A., E. K. AYEBI J.A.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>E.K. AYEBI, J.A:
This is an appeal against the ruling delivered by an Accra High Court on 20th
May, 2010. The appellant was the plaintiff in the lower court while the
respondent was the 2nd defendant because the appellant’s application
which was dismissed by the lower court was directly against him. So in this
judgment I will refer to parties simply as appellant and respondent.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
facts of the case are as follows: One Comfort Oforiwaa of Obo, Kwahu who owned the
building No. D684/4, Okaishie-Accra died on 3rd June, 2007 in Accra.
On 8th October, 2010 Nana Yaw Sintim and Allen Gyimah Kesse
(defendants) applied for the grant of probate in their capacity as the named
executors of the will of the deceased.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
appellant who claimed to be the head of family of the late Comfort Oforiwaa, in
two writs, challenged the will as not being the act of the deceased. In suit
No. BFA4/2008, appellant sued both defendants but second defendant alone in
Suit No. IRL/282/10, in both cases, for the same reliefs. The reliefs endorsed
on both writs respectively are:<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Declaration that the paper
writing 1st May, 2001 is not the act of Comfort Oforiwaa (deceased)
late of House No. 143/16 Alajo, Accra.<o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A declaration that the said
paper writing is null and void and of no legal effect.<o:p></o:p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order of injunction to
restrain defendants by themselves, their agents and assigns whatsoever called
from seeking to act under the said paper writing.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>From
the record of proceedings, there is no indication that the two suits have been
consolidated for purposes of hearing. There is also no such indication in the
statement of case of appellant either. Yet the suit from which the appeal emanates
bears the number BFA 4/2007completely unrelated to the numbers of the two
original suits and the number assigned to the appellant’s motion for contempt
at the trial court.<o:p></o:p>But
then the case of the appellant is that in course of the trial, it was
discovered that the respondent was engaged in acts which amounted to the
administration of the estate. The appellant therefore brought an application
under Order 66 of C.I, 47 the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2004 for an
order that the respondent was in contempt of court.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
trial Judge considered the application a waste of the court’s precious time and
dismissed it as frivolous. However, the judge convicted the co</main>