APALOO J.A.: This appeal raises some interesting questions about the true requirements of adoption of a child in customary law.  Although there is some controversy between the parties on the facts, there is also between them, a large area of agreement.

The plaintiff (i.e. the respondent) who should be in her mid-fifties, originally hailed from a town called Ogome in the Yilo Krobo District of the Eastern Region.  She was born of Krobo parents.  Late in 1933, just about the time that she reached puberty, she had an affair with a man from her home district.