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and Ramatoulie Nje Ndow respectively as their share as there are no
other other inheritors beneficiaries.''
Dissatisfied with this decision the plaintiff now the appellant on 11th
January, 2011 barely ten month from the date of the judgment filed an appeal
before this court against the decision of the lower court on the following grounds:
1. That the judgment is wrong in law and Sharia because the Cadi when
distributing the properties of her late husband Adama Aliu Ceesay gave the
first and second defendant a compound each including an empty plot of land
situated in Yundum and only gave the appellant second floor at the
compound situated at 25 Allen Street in Banjul.
2. That the refusal of Cadi to give this compound at 25 Allen Street in Banjul is
wrong because the appellant jointly constructed this compound with her late
husband with whom she had been married for fifty years before he married
the first respondent.
3. The Cadi was wrong in law when he gave the second respondent a
compound without taking into consideration the second respondent is only a
half sister of the first respondent and has no right to inherit any property of
her late husband Adamu Aliu Ceesay.
4. Judgment was wrong because the Cadi was biased and would not let the
appellant to have the compound at Allen Street for herself but said that the
appellant could only occupy the top floor and that the down floor will be
rented and the proceeds will go to the first and second respondent.
As it was stated above the appeal was late or out of time by about ten
months from the date of the lower court's judgment. These facts availed themselves
to us when we were attending to the application for enlargement of time filed by