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KINGSLEY-NYINAH J.A.
On 28 August 1954, the principal parties to this suit were joined together in matrimony at the Deputy Registrar’s Office, Kumasi Municipal Council, Kumasi, as husband and wife. Fourteen years subsequently, and exactly two grown-up children later, the husband disillusioned and bewildered, instituted proceedings against his wife and another man (the co-respondent) on 12 March 1968 asking for a dissolution of their marriage on the serious grounds of cruelty and adultery.
From the violence of the allegations canvassed by husband and wife against each other in their separate pleadings, it is easy to infer that that love which at the start was so warm, so tender and so beautiful, and which drew husband and wife together into wedlock-that love has now completely soured and is dishonoured, tarnishing the alluring glamour of earlier years.
The embers of their earlier love having now so completely died out without the slightest hope of a rekindling towards meaningful reconcil…