CRENTSIL OTHERWISE HUGHS V. CRENTSIL

SCOTT J.: This is application for variation of an order of alimony and an order for the custody of a child named Alexander Edward made by the Commissioner of Civil Pleas on the 21st January, 1959, on the grounds that: “(a) the petitioner-respondent has been cohabiting with a man called Sam, and has had a child for Sam; and (b) that the child Alexander Edward has been repeatedly ill-treated by Sam.”

In support of his application the applicant testified that he had been married to the respondent and that the marriage had been dissolved by decree absolute on the 9th April, 1959. He was an assistant store superintendent at the P.W.D. in Tamale, and in November 1957 his wife had left Tamale after having been involved in a fight with a woman called Auntie Mary, the co-respondent in the suit for divorce brought by the petitioner Ellen Crentsil.

According to the applicant from that time in 1957 he had no sexual intercourse with his wife. At the time his wife left Tamale in November 1957 he had …