[2016]DLHC11895 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0">AMARKAI<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> AMARTEIFIO</span></span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">GEORGETTE<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>AMI<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>DEDE<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">DJABA, D</span>ANIEL<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">DJABA<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO. BMISC 442/2015 DATE: 11</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10px;">TH </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">FEBRUARY</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal;tab-stops:286.5pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">COUNSEL <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">ALEX<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>QUAYNOR<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>WITH<span style="letter-spacing:1.95pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>JOHN<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>APPIAH<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>FOR<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">PLAINTIFF</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">CORAM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">PATIENCE-MILLS TETTEH<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.75pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Consequent to the defendants’<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>filing of caveats against the<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>grant of probate to administer the estate of Mr. Henry Kwadjo Djaba,<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>this writ was instituted on the 12/2/15 with the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.8pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:44.05pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";letter-spacing:-.05pt">a)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">A declaration that the paper writing<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>(Will) of the late Henry<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>Kwadwoe Djaba dated 14<span style="position:relative;top:-5.0pt;mso-text-raise:5.0pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>February 2013 and deposited<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>at the Registry of the High Court Accra is valid.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.85pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:44.05pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";letter-spacing:-.05pt">b)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">An<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>order<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>granting<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>probate<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>Will<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>late<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Henry<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Kwadjo<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Djaba to the plaintiff<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.05pt; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:44.05pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";letter-spacing:-.05pt">c)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Costs.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></h1><h1 style="margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">PLAINTIFF’S<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">CASE</span><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.7pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:4.3pt; line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The plaintiff is a lawyer who was appointed as executor of the Will of the late Henry Djaba who died 29<span style="position:relative;top:-5.0pt;mso-text-raise:5.0pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>September 2013 at Korlebu Hospital and was<sp