DANQUAH V. DANQUAH

OSEI-HWERE J.: On 2 September 1958 John Yaw Danquah, the petitioner herein, lawfully took to wife at the district registry of marriage, Tarkwa, Mary Dawson Amoah and thenceforth to be known as Mary Danquah the respondent herein. After the said marriage the couple lived and cohabited at Tarkwa, Dunkwa-on-Offin, and finally at Cape Coast. There are two female issues of the marriage both of whom have, according to the petitioner, had the benefit of university education and are now in employment. The petitioner is presently employed in the accounts branch of the University of Cape Coast whilst the respondent is a senior school teacher at Cape Coast. The husband has filed a petition for divorce disclosing the following facts:

“(4) That there have been proceedings previous hereto in this honourable court with reference to the said marriage and the children of the said marriage by the petitioner but the matter was settled, and an order made by the court for maintenance of the children.

(5) Th…