THE REGISTERED TRUSTEES FRIENDS OF CHRIST MINISTRY vs KWABENA BOATENG [2017]DLHC16606

Date	2017-03-10
Suit No.	SUIT NO. BMISC/7/2013
Citation No.	[2017]DLHC16606

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE K. A. GYIMAH

CLEMENT SAMBO ESQ.

YAW ANOKYE FRIMPONG ESQ.

[2017]DLHC16606
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REGISTERED TRUSTEES FRIENDS OF CHRIST
MINISTRY<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>KWABENA BOATENG<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>&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;&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; <o:p></o: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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 5.5pt;">

<a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>SUIT
NO. BMISC/7/2013&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: 10TH MARCH
2017<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL&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;&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; <o:p></o: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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 5.5pt;">

CLEMENT SAMBO ESQ. FOR YAW
ANOKYE FRIMPONG ESQ. FOR PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE K. A.
GYIMAH <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 5.5pt;">

JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;The
plaintiff’s case is that the late Kwaku Boateng (deceased), a lawyer by
profession and once an Attorney-General of Ghana in the 1st Republic sometime in
the late 1990s together with others incorporated the Plaintiff ministry as a
company limited by guarantee under the Companies, Act, 1960 (Act 179). The
deceased served as the chairman
of the Executive Council of the plaintiff
ministry until his death
in 2006 when he was substituted by one Reverend
Stephen Mante. The deceased
in his lifetime gave a part of his land situate at McCarthy Hill (and
described in relief (ix) of the writ of summons) to the plaintiff for its
church activities and this gift was confirmed by the deceased
in his last will and testament
dated 19th April 2005 which was admitted to probate on 17th
March 2009.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
plaintiff asserts that on the death of the deceased, the defendant, one of the
surviving children of the deceased and who was at all material times present at
the reading of the deceased’s will, started laying claim to the land the
deceased had given as a gift to the plaintiff and confirmed in his will. The defendant in the face of the
existence of the deceased’s will fraudul</main>