NANA OBENG DWAMENA vs. MR. KWAME DONKOR AND 6 OTHERS [2014]DLCA5468

Date	2014-04-30
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO.: H1/40/12
Citation No.	[2014]DLCA5468

E. K. AYEBI J.A. (PRESIDING)

IRENE C. DANQUAH J.A.

TANKO I. O. AMADU J.A.

[2014]DLCA5468
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >NANA OBENG DWAMENA<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MR. KWAME DONKOR AND 6 OTHERS<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS &amp; DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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APPEAL NO.: H1/40/12&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; WEDNESDAY, 30TH APRIL, 2014<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>E. K. AYEBI J.A. (PRESIDING), IRENE C. DANQUAH
J.A., TANKO I. O. AMADU J.A. <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>AYEBI J.A.<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
This is an appeal
against the judgment of the Circuit Court, Bekwai dated 8th April
2011. In the judgment the trial judge dismissed the plaintiff’s claim as
customary successor to the late Kwaku Boakye because the plaintiff is not a
member of the family of the late Kwaku Boakye. On the contrary, the trial judge
upheld the counter-claim of the 1st to the 6th defendants
that since the family of the late Kwaku Boakye has become extinct, the late
Kwaku Boakye had the capacity to devise the disputed properties to the 3rd
to 7th defendants in his will.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;
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In his writ of
summons, the plaintiff sought the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A declaration
that the following properties belong to his immediate family and that the late
Kwaku Boakye had no capacity to devise them to the defendants or anybody:<o:p></o:p>(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;
All that piece and
parcel of cocoa farm at Amomorso/Kokotro Road/Danhiniho on Kokofu/Dadiase stool
land and bounded by the properties of Adwoa Bio, the late Kwasi Boadi No.2,
late Kwame Adjei, Kwaku Poku, the late Peter and Anyano streamlet (beyond the
stream is the farm of Osei Yaw).<o:p></o:p>(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;
All that and
parcel of farmland at Bofufuoho on Kokofu/Dadiase stool land and bounded by the
properties of Yaw Sarfo, the late Kwasi Boadi No.1, the late Kwasi Boadi No.2,
the late Kofi Agyapong, the late Kofi Nyame, the late Kyei Mensah, the late Yaa
Amoa and Amma Serwaa.<o:p></o:p>(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
All that piece
and parcel of fallow land at a place known and called Nsuayem/Kwaho on
Kokofu/Dadiase stool land and bounded by the properties of Amma Serwaa, the
late Yaw Barimah Kumaa and the late Adwoa Kyere.<o:p></o:p>(d)&nbsp; All that piece and parcel of cocoa farm lying and
being at a place commonly called Buohoho on Kokofu/Dadiase stool land and
bounded by the properties of Yaw Sarfo, Kwasi Boadi No.1 and Kwasi Boadi No.2,
Kwadwo Agyapong, Kofi Nyame, Kyei Nyame, Yaa Amoa, Amma Serwaa</main>