AMEKO vs. AGBO AND ANOTHER

JUDGMENT OF PREMPEH J. One of the grounds of appeal taken by counsel for the appellant is that the local court magistrate failed to comply with the relevant section of the Courts Act, 19601(1), and that therefore the local court was not vested with jurisdiction to adjudicate upon the subject-matter in dispute, and I think that that ground must prevail. The appellant’s claim reads as follows: “The plaintiff claims from the defendants jointly and severally the sum of £G100 being damages for trespass into the plaintiff’s land commonly called Tsiho at Tsito in the Awudome area of the Ho District to wit; the first defendant had authorised the second defendant to farm in the plaintiff’s aforesaid land and upon this authority the second defendant began to farm groundnuts, etc. in the said land without the consent and permission of the plaintiff. The boundaries are as follows: on the east by Kpakpo’s piece of land, on the west by Adza Wuiah’s piece of land, on the so...