OPANIN KWAKU DUAH AND KWABENA ADADE vs. OPPONG ASAMOAH [2018]DLCA6195

Date	2018-11-28
Suit No.	SUIT NO. H1/68/2017
Citation No.	[2018]DLCA6195

MARIAMA OWUSU J.A (PRESIDING)

HENRY A. KWOFIE J.A

AMMA GAISIE J.A

[2018]DLCA6195
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >OPANIN KWAKU DUAH AND KWABENA ADADE <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>OPPONG
ASAMOAH <o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
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SUIT NO. H1/68/2017 &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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 28TH
NOVEMBER, 2018 <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>MARIAMA OWUSU J.A
(PRESIDING), HENRY A. KWOFIE J.A<a name="_Hlk528924336">, &nbsp;AMMA GAISIE </a>J.A<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>HENRY KWOFIE&nbsp;&nbsp;
J.A<o:p></o:p>This is an appeal against the judgment
of the High Court Kumasi dated the 30th of July 2015.&nbsp; By a Writ of Summons filed on 25/02/2005 the
plaintiffs/appellants claimed against the defendant/respondent the following
relief:<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;
text-indent:-.5in;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A declaration that the
properties devised under the Will of the late Kwabena Nyantakyi are his
self-acquired properties and perpetual injunction restraining the defendant,
his privies agents and servants from interfering with them. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The 1st plaintiff is the
surviving executor of the last Will and Testament of the late Opanin Kwabena
Nyantakyi (deceased) who died testate on 5th May 2004.&nbsp; The 2nd plaintiff is a member of
the testator’s family and one of the beneficiaries named in his Will.&nbsp; The defendant is a nephew of the
testator.&nbsp; In his last Will and testament,
the testator devised all his properties to named beneficiaries.&nbsp; After his death, the defendant claimed that
not all the properties devised in the testator’s last Will were his
self-acquired properties.&nbsp; The plaintiffs
contending that all the properties were his self-acquired properties and he had
the testamentary capacity to devise them in the manner he did, commenced an
action against the defendant.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The defendant on the other hand
contended that the testator who was a member of his family had made an
intervivos gift of one of the disputed properties to his matrilineal family whilst
a house at Atwima Koforidua was not the self-acquired property of the testator.&nbsp; The defendant accordingly counter-claimed as
against the plaintiffs as follows:<o:p></o:p>a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A
declaration that the following properties belonged to the defendant family:<o:p></o:p>i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First
floor consisting of two flats of his H/No. 20, Patasi Kumasi<o:p></o:p>ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A
portion of his Wansamire cocoa farm together with a cottage thereon now given
under his Will paragraph 6(c) to his daughter Abena Antwiwaa<o:p></o:p>iii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; House
No. 88, Koforidua-Atwima <o:p></o:p>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Recovery
of possession of the properties in dispute or any part there</main>