IN RE ARYEETEY (DECD); ARYEETEY V. OKWAB

OSEI-HWERE J.A.: This appeal is a paradox. It was brought, essentially, by the respondent-appellant (hereinafter designated simply as the respondent) against whom an application brought by the applicant respondent (also hereinafter described as the applicant) to delete her name as the administratrix of the estate of the late James Aryee Aryeetey was dismissed. The application brought at the court below was transparently conceived in mischief because the applicant did not herself seek specifically for an order that she was entitled in her own right to be appointed an administratrix of the same estate.

The foundation of her application was that the respondent was not the wife of a monogamous marriage to the late James Aryee Aryeetey and that the purported celebration of her marriage with the deceased on 20 July 1963 at the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead in London was bigamous according to both United Kingdom and Ghanaian laws and hence the said marriage was null and void by our Marria…