HESSE v. ACCRA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL AND ANOTHER [1964] GLR 399-405

Practice and procedure—Pleadings—Denials—Effect of—Whether failure to deny specifically or by necessary implication an allegation of fact in a pleading amounts to admission of that fact—Supreme [High] Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954 (L.N. 140A), Order 19, rr. 14, 18 and 20.

Fatal accident—Negligence—Proof of—Uncontroverted evidence—Inference to be drawn from the unchallenged evidence of a party which leads to one irresistible conclusion.

Fatal accident—Dependants—Claim by—Pecuniary loss—Whether it includes probable prospective loss.

