COLLINS AMPONSAH BOATENG vs. RETIRED MAJOR YAW AGYENIM BOATENG AND 3 OTHERS [2022]DLCA15128

Date	2022-07-28
Suit No.	SUIT NO.: H1/21/2022
Citation No.	[2022]DLCA15128

A. M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS) J. A. PRESIDING

A. B. POKU-ACHEAMPONG J. A.

S. K. A. ASIEDU J. A.

Lawrence Asumadu Sakyi for Plaintiff /Appellant

K. Asante Krobea with Stephen Boateng for Defendants/Respondents.

[2022]DLCA15128
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >COLLINS AMPONSAH BOATENG<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>RETIRED
MAJOR YAW AGYENIM BOATENG AND 3 OTHERS<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<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: windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>Lawrence Asumadu Sakyi for Plaintiff /Appellant<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: windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">

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for Defendants/Respondents.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>A. M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS)
J. A. PRESIDING,&nbsp;
A. B.
POKU-ACHEAMPONG J. A., S. K. A. ASIEDU J. A. <o:p></o: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 0in;">

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</div>POKU-ACHEAMPONG,
J.A.:<o:p></o:p>This
is an appeal against the judgment of a Kumasi High Court dated 10th
February, 2020.&nbsp; In this judgment, for
reasons of convenience, the parties shall retain the designations used in the
Trial Court. Thus we shall refer to the Plaintiff/Appellant as the Plaintiff
and the Defendants/Respondents as the Defendants.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Per
his writ of summons issued on 8/10/14 the Plaintiff Collins Amponsah Boateng
averred that he was the customary successor of the late Benjamin Kofi Gyimah, and
the Head of the matrilineal family of the late Opanin Kwame Kumah, Opanin
Frimpong, Opanin J. Y. Adade, and Superintendent Akuoko all of Oyoko,
Ashanti.&nbsp; He claimed against the Defendants
jointly and severally the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>(a)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;
A declaration that H/No. O. I. 59, Ashanti
New Town, Kumasi is the family property of the Plaintiff’s said matrilineal
family and therefore the said late testator Benjamin Kofi Gyimah had no
testamentary capacity to have purported to devise the same to certain purported
beneficiaries named in the Last Will and Testament dated 4th day of
May 2014.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(b)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp; A
declaration that H/No. A.H. 16 Oyoko, Ashanti, is the family property of the Plaintiff’s
matrilineal family and therefore the said late testator, Benjamin Kofi Gyimah
had no testamentary capacity to have purported to devise the said property to
certain purported beneficiaries in his said last Will and Testament dated 4th
day of May 2014.<o:p></o:p>(c)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;