JACQUELINE ASABERE AND ANITA ASABERE vs. JOHNSON ABOAGYE ASIM [2016]DLCA4929

Date	2016-10-19
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO: H1/41/2016
Citation No.	[2016]DLCA4929

E. K. AYEBI (PRESIDING) JA

GERTRUDE TORKORNOO (MRS.) JA

ANGELINA M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) JA

MR. OSAFO GYAMFI FOR PLFFS/APPELLANTS

MR. JAMES OSEI KOFI FOR DEF/RESPONDENT

[2016]DLCA4929
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >JACQUELINE ASABERE AND ANITA ASABERE <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>JOHNSON ABOAGYE ASIM <o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT)<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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CIVIL
APPEAL NO: H1/41/2016&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: 19TH OCTOBER,
2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR.
OSAFO GYAMFI FOR PLFFS/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.
JAMES OSEI KOFI FOR DEF/RESPONDENT <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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E.
K. AYEBI (PRESIDING) JA, GERTRUDE TORKORNOO (MRS.) JA, ANGELINA M. DOMAKYAAREH
(MRS.) JA<o:p></o:p>

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</div>AYEBI, JA<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
This is an appeal against the judgment of a
Kumasi High Court in which the trial judge dismissed the claim of the
plaintiffs/appellants based on a gift inter vivos and upheld the counter-claim
of the defendant, an executor of the Will of the testator.<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The testator Yaw Anim Asabere (deceased),
was the father of the plaintiffs.&nbsp; The
testator and plaintiff’s mother (PW1) were divorced.&nbsp; The case of the plaintiffs is that, their
father squandered huge sums of their mother’s money on the pretext that the
money was stolen.&nbsp; When their father’s
dishonesty was found out and exposed, he promised to gift to the plaintiffs two
rooms and a store as a compensation in the building he was putting up at
Dompoase, Kumasi.<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Indeed on completion of the building, their
father fulfilled the promise by giving them a room each and a store to the 2nd
plaintiff who is a seamstress.&nbsp;
Immediately they gave an aseda and took possession of the rooms and the
store.&nbsp; The 2nd plaintiff had
since been using the store for her sewing business for the past fifteen years
without let or hindrance.<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;">4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
It is the case of the plaintiffs that their
father passed away on 29th July 2011.&nbsp; During the funeral, their attention was drawn
to a Will made by him.&nbsp; Per paragraph one
of the Will, their father devised their rooms and store to his new wife, Madam
Adwoa Gyamfua and two of their children absolutely.&nbsp; They protested that the Will could not have
been made by their father because of the prior gift of the rooms and the store
to them.&nbsp; Although their step-mother
intervened that the issue will be settled at home, she did nothing about the
Will, hence their suit against defendant, the surviving executor of the Will.<o:p></o:p>