ERNESTINA BOATENG vs. PHYLLIS SERWAH, BOAMPONG NYAMEKYE AND MARK ADU PREMPEH (JNR.) [2016]DLCA8485

ERNESTINA BOATENG vs. PHYLLIS SERWAH, BOAMPONG NYAMEKYE AND MARK ADU PREMPEH (J... [2016]DLCA8485

Date	2016-02-04
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL SUIT NO: H1/153/14
Citation No.	[2016]DLCA8485

GYAESAYOR JA (PRESIDING)

DORDZIE (MRS.) JA

MENSAH JA

TETTEH JOSIAH DEFENDANT/APPELLANT

BEDE TUUTU PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

[2016]DLCA8485
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ERNESTINA
BOATENG<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>PHYLLIS
SERWAH, BOAMPONG NYAMEKYE AND MARK ADU PREMPEH (JNR.)<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS)<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 SUIT NO: H1/153/14&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:
4TH FEBRUARY, 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>TETTEH
JOSIAH DEFENDANT/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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BEDE
TUUTU PLAINTIFF/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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GYAESAYOR
JA (PRESIDING), DORDZIE (MRS.) JA, MENSAH JA<o:p></o:p>

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</div>GYAESAYOR,
JA<o:p></o:p>This
is an appeal against the decision of the High Court, Human Right Division, Accra
presided over by Justice Uuter Paul Dery dated 30th day of July 2012.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The plaintiff/respondent
(hereinafter called plaintiff) claiming to be the surviving wife of the
deceased Mark Adu Prempeh sought the following reliefs against the defendant
who are surviving spouse, customary successor and son of the deceased who died
intestate on 17th February, 2007. Her endorsement on the writ sets
out the claims sought by her as follows:<o:p></o:p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Declaration that the plaintiff
herein as the legal wife of Mark Adu Prempeh as at 17th February
2007 became the lawful widow of same upon his death on that date.<o:p></o:p>b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Declaration that since the
Divorce Petition in which the plaintiff had prayed the court to grant her joint
share in the properties acquired during the subsistence of their marriage was still
pending before the court, the court’s ruling that her prayer before the court
died with the husband was totally wrong in law and equity.<o:p></o:p>c.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Declaration that by the
death of the husband in the course of the determination of the state of their
matrimonial properties, the plaintiff herein automatically became the sole
owner of same according to the Law of Survivorship.<o:p></o:p>d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Revocation of the Letters of
Administration on the estate of Mark Adu Prempeh on grounds that it was obtained
by fraud and upon illegality.<o:p></o:p>e.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Perpetual Injunction against
the Defendants herein, their&nbsp; assigns,
agents and all those who claim title through them from in any way interfering
with her peaceful enjoyment of House No. TH 67, Tantra Hill where the Defendants
have illegally ejected her by throwing out her personal effects and renting out
her premises as well as other parts of the said house.<o:p></o:p>