HANNAH BUCKMAN, SUSAN AMOAH, EDWARD DJAN AMOAH AND MATHEW KOFI SAGOE vs. PATRICK ANKUMAYI AND GYIMIAMAH ANKUMAYI [2012]DLCA4837

HANNAH BUCKMAN, SUSAN AMOAH, EDWARD DJAN AMOAH AND MATHEW KOFI SAGOE vs. PATRIC... [2012]DLCA4837

Date	2012-06-11
Suit No.	SUIT NO: H1/66/2012
Citation No.	[2012]DLCA4837

J. B. AKAMBA J.A. [PRESIDING]

K. A. ACQUAYE J. A.

A. M. DORDZIE (MRS) J. A.

MR. WILFRED BABA AVIO FOR DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS

MR. AKWASI BOSOMPEM FOR PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS

[2012]DLCA4837
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>HANNAH
BUCKMAN, SUSAN AMOAH, EDWARD DJAN AMOAH AND MATHEW KOFI SAGOE<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>PATRICK ANKUMAYI AND GYIMIAMAH ANKUMAYI<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS)<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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SUIT
NO: H1/66/2012&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: 11TH JUNE, 2012<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR.
WILFRED BABA AVIO FOR DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MR.
AKWASI BOSOMPEM FOR PLAINTIFFS/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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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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</div>K. A. ACQUAYE, &nbsp;J. A<o:p></o:p>This
is an appeal against the judgment delivered on 18th June 2011 by an
Accra High Court against the defendants/appellants.<o:p></o:p>The
plaintiffs issued a writ of summons claiming against the four administrators of
the late Kojo Amoah.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:40.5pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;
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A declaration that the late Kojo Amoah in
his life time told the plaintiffs and his family both immediate and extended
that in appreciation of the financial assistance towards the putting up of
House No. B 455/21, North Kaneshie by the late mother of the plaintiffs, the
said house should be given to them.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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An order directed at the defendants to vest
House No. B 445/21 in the plaintiffs in accordance with the wishes and
directives of the late Kojo Armah.<o:p></o:p>The
plaintiffs/respondents case was that their late mother was the uterine sister
of the late Kojo Amoah.&nbsp; Their mother
died when they were young and Kojo Amoah adopted and took them to live with his
wife and children in Accra.&nbsp; He looked
after them as his children and when he could not afford financially to look
after the 1st plaintiff/respondent at Emit School, he made him stop
his education to become his driver in his business as a herbal medicine manufacturer
and seller.&nbsp; In his life time Kojo Amoah
built four houses in Accra and distributed three of them among three women with
whom he had children.&nbsp; He told the women
and his family members that the house in which they all lived House No. B.
455/21, North Kaneshie, should on his demise be given to the plaintiffs in view
of financial assistance given him by plaintiff’s mother when he was building
it.&nbsp; Upon the demise of Kojo Amoah the
defendants who are the administrators of his estate have in spite of several
protestation and pleas refused to vest the property in them but live therein
whilst they have rented out the three houses given to them.<o:p></o:p>The
defendants denied that the plaintiffs were customarily adopted by Kojo
Amoah.&nbsp; They stated that at the time their
mother, a charcoal seller died the 1st plaintiff was 19 years whilst
the 2nd plaintiff was 11 years old</main>