QUARTEY V. QUARTEY AND ANOTHER

KINGSLEY-NYINAH J.A.

The parties this cause were joined together as husband and wife in holy wedlock at the Ridge Church, Accra, on 26 December 1964. Prior to that ceremony the respondent-wife had been customarily married to the petitioner-husband in 1957. Some four years after the solemnisation of their marriage, and exactly four children later, the husband presented this petition seeking for a dissolution of this union upon the single, urgent and serious ground of adultery against his wife, the mother of his children, his petition averring inter alia as follows:

“(7) That the respondent has since the celebration of the marriage committed adultery with the co-respondent, Plockey.

(8) That on 18 January 1966, the respondent committed adultery with the co-respondent at Asylum Down, Accra.”

After he had made clear these particulars as to the date and place of this grave matrimonial offence, the petitioner sought to set the seal of authority upon his allegations with the following statemen…