MADAM SHATU WANDAHO & 5 OTHERS V. ALIHU YELBI

JUDGMENT 

The plaintiffs in this action are a mother and her daughters while the  defendant is her only male child. The defendant and the 2nd to 6th plaintiffs  are the children of the 1st plaintiff and one Yusif Yelbi, hereafter referred  to as the deceased. The said Yusif Yelbi, acquired the property in dispute,  namely, House No. C 810/12, Pig Farm, Accra in his lifetime. 

The plaintiffs’ case as can be gleaned from their statement of claim is that  the defendant, who is the only male child of the deceased, asserted  ownership over the entire property in dispute to the exclusion of his  mother and sisters. According to the plaintiffs, the defendant, after the  deceased’s death, sought permission to build three extra rooms on the  undeveloped section of the deceased’s estate. He proposed that he would  rent out the rooms for a period of eight years to recoup his investment.  Thereafter, the estate would be distributed among all the beneficiaries.  After the period of eight years had …