KWAKU ADDO vs. GODFRED AGYEDO BOADI AND 3 OTHERS [2019]DLCA6326

Date	2019-03-26
Suit No.	CIVILAPPEAL NO. H1/25/2018
Citation No.	[2019]DLCA6326

F. G KORBIEH JA (PRESIDING)

M. M. AGYEMANG (MRS.) JA

M. A. WOOD (MRS.) JA

ABIGAIL OFORI APPIAH FOR PLAINTIFF /APPELLANT

SOMUAH ASAMOAH FOR DEFENDANTS /RESPONDENTS

[2019]DLCA6326
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KWAKU ADDO<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/ RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>GODFRED
AGYEDO BOADI AND 3 OTHERS<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/ APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, KOFORIDUA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVILAPPEAL
NO. H1/25/2018&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 26TH
MARCH, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p>ABIGAIL
OFORI APPIAH FOR PLAINTIFF /APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SOMUAH
ASAMOAH FOR DEFENDANTS /RESPONDENTS <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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F.
G KORBIEH, JA (PRESIDING), M. M. AGYEMANG (MRS.), JA AND M. A. WOOD (MRS.), JA<o:p></o:p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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</div>AGYEMANG (MRS.), JA:<o:p></o:p>This appeal follows the judgment of the High Court,
Akim Oda, delivered on 30th of March 2012. The judgment itself
follows a rehearing of the suit per an order of this court contained in this
court’s judgment dated: 5th March 2004.<o:p></o:p>The facts of this matter are not complex, and we
shall endeavour to make short work of the issues that have given rise to this
appeal. These are the matters antecedent to the instant appeal:<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The plaintiff\appellant
(hereafter referred to alternately as the plaintiff, or the appellant), commenced
the suit at the court below against the defendants/respondents (hereafter
referred to alternately as the defendants, or the respondents), <a name="_Hlk2593441">seeking inter alia, a declaration that the alleged redistribution
of the estate of Opanyin Kwaku Boadi (deceased) on 4th August 1999
is null and void; damages for trespass; the refund of </a>Ȼ150,000
by the 4th defendant with interest thereon, and a perpetual injunction
restraining the defendants and their privies from interfering with the
plaintiff’s ownership, possession and control of properties or any part
thereof.<o:p></o:p>The plaintiff brought suit as the successive customary
successor to Opanyin Kwaku Boadi (deceased), having been appointed the direct
customary successor to his own mother Akosua Kadewaa, who herself had been
customary successor to her brother Kwaku Danso, the direct customary successor
of the said Opanyin Kwaku Boadi. <o:p></o:p>According to the plaintiff, family properties he
succeeded to, included a house numbered H/No D194 Nsuase Kade, originally the
self-acquired property of Opanyin Kwaku Boadi, as well as a farm at Dadease (which
he alleged to be family land) on which the said Opanyin Kwaku Boadi (deceased)
had made a farm. <o:p></o:p>It was the case of the plaintiff that Opanyin Kwaku
Boadi, a man of wealth who had put up three houses in his lifetime, and had
made the farm at Dadease, distributed his self-acquired properties before his
death in 1962. In this regard, the plaintiff alleged that, Opanyin Kwaku Boadi
a husband of two wives gifted one house each to his wives: to his wife Abena
Donkor who was childless, he gifted his self- acquired house at a place called
Twepease, to his wife Akosua Donkor, the mother of his four children (the
defendants herein), he gifted a house at Kade, and to his maternal family, he
gave house numbered D194 where he dwelt. <o:p></o:p>It was common cause that &nbsp;Opanyin&nbsp;
Kwaku Boadi was an Ashanti man who belonged to the Bretuo Clan and was
subject to matrilineal succession. <o:p></o:p>At the court below, the plaintiff recounting in his
evidence the events that have given rise to the instant appeal, testified that
the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd defendants/respondents children
of Opanyin Kwaku Boadi, approached him the successive customary successor of
their father’s estate, and m</main>