JULIANA ANTWI AGYEI (MRS.) vs. MADAM ADWOA MANU AND OTHERS [2017]DLCA5373

Date	2017-10-24
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO.H/18/2017
Citation No.	[2017]DLCA5373

K E. K. AYEBI (PRESIDING) JA

GERTRUDE TORKORNOO (MRS.) JA

ANGELINA M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) JA

NO LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR APPELLANTS

TONY MMIEH FOR RESPONDENT IN ALL THREE SUITS

[2017]DLCA5373
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >JULIANA ANTWI AGYEI
(MRS.) <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MADAM ADWOA MANU AND OTHERS<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<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.H/18/2017&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: 24TH
OCTOBER, 2017<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>NO
LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR APPELLANTS<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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TONY MMIEH FOR RESPONDENT IN ALL
THREE SUITS<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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K 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>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
This
appeal which was launched on 11th July 2008 is against the judgment
of Yaw Appau JA (as he then was) sitting as an additional High Court Judge,
delivered on 6th June 2008 in three suits which were consolidated.<o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The
subject of dispute amongst the parties now centred on a plot with a dwelling
house thereon numbered Plot 14C, Block D, Breman Kumasi-Ashanti.&nbsp; The disputants are a daughter-in-law on the
one side against her mother-in-law and brother-in-law on the other.&nbsp; In view of the fact that the appellants are
not challenging the judgment on the merits but on the grounds of an error in
procedure, it will suffice to state the claims of the parties and their
pleadings briefly &nbsp;in each suit and then
the trial judge’s overall conclusion on the claim in respect of the house as
consolidated. <o:p></o:p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The
facts of the case in all three suits is that one Samuel Antwi Agyei, deceased
was the husband of Mrs. Juliana Antwi Agyei.&nbsp;
The first defendant in the first suit LS. 68/95 and plaintiff in the
second suit LS 1/98 was the mother of Samuel Antwi Agyei and for that matter
mother-in-law of Juliana, respondent in this appeal.&nbsp; The 2nd defendant in suit number
LS 68/95 and defendant in suit number CS 212/99 are brothers of Samuel Antwi
Agyei.&nbsp; The third defendant in suit LS
68/95 since deceased, was the head of the Antwi Agyei family.&nbsp; The defendant in the second suit, LS 1/98 is
a classmate and bosom friend of Samuel Antwi Agyei.<o:p></o:p>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Up
to 1993, Samuel Antwi Agyei and his family (wife and children) sorjourned in
the United Kingdom.&nbsp; While living in the
United Kingdom, Samuel Antwi Agyei commissioned his classmate and bosom friend
to put up a house for him and his nuclear family.&nbsp; Through regular remittances to his friend,
the disputed house was put up on a plot of land defendant in second suit
acquired solely in the name of Samuel Antwi Agyei.<o:p></o:p><</main>