[2023]DLHC17190 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">JOSEPH KWESI BADU A.K.A AGYAPA J. K.</span></b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; tab-stops:center 244.5pt left 291.75pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">MR. STEPHEN ADDO, MR. YEBOAH APPIAH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(EXECUTORS/APPLICANTS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, SEFWI WIAWSO]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops:168.75pt 278.15pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <o:p></o:p></span></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: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO. E6/03/2023 DATE: 7<sup>TH</sup> FEBRUARY 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops:96.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">COUNSEL <o:p></o:p></span></b></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: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">JACOB SOUNG FOR APPLICANT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">CORAM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE KWAME AMOAKO<o:p></o:p></span></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: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:6.7pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">This is the Judgment of the Court on an <b>Originating Motion Ex Parte for Grant of Probate </b>filed by the Applicants to administer the estate of Joseph Kwesi Baidu A. K. A. Agyapa (deceased).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">THE<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>LAW ON<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>GRANT<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>OF<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>PROBATE<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>(COMMON<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> FORM)</span></span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>law<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>pertaining<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>grant<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>Probate<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>will<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>be<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>discussed<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>under<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>following<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>two<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt">headings:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-list:l6 level2 lfo8;tab-stops:79.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">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-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Ascertaining<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Statutory<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>prerequisites<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>grant<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Probate,<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">and</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:7.05pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:72.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height: 115%;mso-list:l6 level2 lfo8;tab-stops:79.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">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-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Affording facility to remedy non-compliance with Statutory prerequisites for the grant of Probate or L. A.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list: l4 level1 lfo9"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">A)<span style="font-style: normal; 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-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></i></b><!--[endif]-