COMPTROLLER OF CUSTOMS AND EXCISE V. NARTEY AND OTHERS

TAYLOR J.: In this case the plaintiffs’ claim against the defendant endorsed on the writ of summons is as follows:

“(a) An order of the court upon the defendant to subsist and maintain and educate the second and third plaintiffs until they attain the age of manhood.

(b) An order of the court upon the defendant to pay to the first plaintiff the sum of N¢576 or £G288 representing expenses incurred by her in respect of second and third plaintiffs towards their living, maintenance and subsistence from the date of death of their father until the date of the action reckoned at N¢0.80 or 8s. per day (i.e. from 4 February 1966 to 28 February 1968). (c) Mesne profit. (d) An order of the court upon the defendant to maintain the first plaintiff as from the date of her husband’s death until she may get married or in the alternative until her death.”

The defendant is admittedly the customary successor of one J. E. Appiadu (deceased) the husband of the first plaintiff and the father of the second and …