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GRACE AYELEY WELBECK V. GRACE OKAIKAI OKINE

(2014) JELR 68694 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/20/2011  •  7 May 2014  •  Ghana

Coram
ATUGUBA J.S.C. (PRESIDING), ANSAH J.S.C., BONNIE J.S.C., GBADEGBE J.S.C., AKAMBA J.S.C.

Judgement

JUDGMENT

ATUGUBA J.S.C.

Facts of the Case

The facts of this case are fairly well stated in the Plaintiff/Respondent/Respondent’s Statement of case dated 2/1/2014 as follows:

“By a Deed of Gift dated the 8th day of June, 1959 the James Town Stool conveyed a parcel of Land to the late Madam Regina Naa Oyoe Mills [Deceased]. She subsequently built two twin houses on the said land which became known as H/No. A 303/7, the subject matter of this instant suit.
Madam Regina Naa Oyoe Mills, being a native of James Town, Ga Mashi practiced the matrilineal system of inheritance. She died intestate on the 21st day of August, 1973.
After her death her two surviving children Madam Harriet Thompson and Rgina Aku Sackey took out Letters of Administration from the Circuit Court, Accra on the 14th day of May, 1991 to administer the estate of their late mother. On the 6th day of August, 1991, they executed a vesting Assent and vested the disputed property unto themselves.
They, subsequently empowered by the Ve…

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