ADOAKU vs. NYAMALOR

JUDGMENT OF BLAY J.S.C. This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Accra, which reversed the judgment of the East Accra Local Court given in favour of the appellant. The appellant by his writ of summons issued in the local court, claimed a declaration of title to three pieces or parcels of land which he claimed the defendant, the respondent herein, had wrongfully entered upon. The three pieces or parcels of land were fully described in the said writ. The appellant’s case was that he as head of Abafum quarter in Labadi, was the proper person to grant or alienate lands attached to the said quarter; that the respondent purporting to have received a grant from the Labadi chief, had entered upon the three pieces or parcels of land without his appellant’s, consent or authority. He therefore claimed £G50 damages for trespass and an order of injunction restraining the respondent his representatives, agents and or servants from entering upon the said lands and in any manner ...