AMANKWAH vs. KYERE

JUDGMENT OF DJABANOR J. Sometime ago (I think in early 1957) the defendant as chief of Kofiase together with his elders and people was thinking seriously of demolishing the Ahenfie and building a suitable one in its place. For this purpose upon their request the Agonahene permitted them to fell 300 timber trees on Kofiase stool land. I think the trees were accordingly felled, and at least £G700 was saved for the Ahenfie building project at the treasury at Agona. Just then as ill luck would have it, the defendant was destooled, and one Mr. Brentuo was installed Kofiasehene in his place. On the 1st July, 1957, therefore, Mr. Brentuo, now as Kofiasehene Nana Sarfo III, entered into an agreement with the plaintiff to erect the said Ahenfie at Kofiase at the cost of £G3,060. The plaintiff began the work and erected the ground floor after advances totalling £G700 had been paid to plaintiff by the said stool represented by Nana Sarfo III. Meanwhile the defendant Nana Kofi Kyere ...