NEEQUAYE (DECD), IN RE; ARMA AND ANOTHER V. ANNA

EMELIA ARYEE AG. J.: This is an application for and on behalf of Alfred Nii Teiko Armah and Diana Adei Neequaye, two of the three administrators of the estate of James Kotey Neequaye (deceased) praying this court for an order granting permission to the applicants herein, to present the earlier letters of administration issued to them by the court on 17 September 1987 to the Electricity Corporation of Ghana for payment of the intestate’s benefits to them, thus leaving behind the third administratrix, Gladys Oboshie Annan, the widow, who was later joined as co-administratrix of the deceased’s estate. The basis of this application is that the court which granted the letters of administration has power to revoke it.

It is the contention of the applicants that the co-administratrix, the customary wife of the intestate, is by her unco-operative attitude, trying to thwart the efforts of the administrators in the administration of the estate. As a result, nothing has been done by way of admini…