KRAH vs. YEBOAH AND ANOTHER

This is an appeal from the decision of Brong-Ahafo Central Local Court at Wamfie where the plaintiff-respondent claimed that the defendants had cleared the forest immediately in front of her cultivated cocoa farm and asked the court to give her possession of same. The court gave judgment in her favour and the appellants have now appealed to this court on several grounds. The facts are not in dispute. Many years ago the first defendant’s stool, the Krontire stool of Dormaa, granted a large piece of forest land including the forest land in dispute, to certain Ningo people. Due to certain political events that happened in the area they left this forest land and went away. Recently the plaintiff and others, all subjects of Dormaa stool and eligible to farm on krontire stool land, entered into the forest and made cocoa farms therein. More recently still the defendants had also been making farms in the same area. In extending this industry they cleared the forest immediately adjoining t.....