EGYIN vs. AYE

JUDGMENT OF VAN LARE J.S.C. Van Lare J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The case which the appellant put up is that the land, the subject-matter of this dispute, known as Odumasi land, is the ancestral property of his family, and that the same was acquired by his ancestor Inkabi by cultivation of the virgin forest and reducing it into his possession; that Inkabi permitted his grand-daughter, one Poprodo, to occupy the land; that upon the death of Inkabi, Effua Kum, his sister, and mother of the appellant, also permitted Poprodo to continue in occupation, and Poprodo built a village on the land which she named Misire Nyami, which has become the other name of the land. He sued, according to him, because the respondent who got to the land through Poprodo was claiming the land as the ancestral property of his family, the Dihyina family. The case of the respondent on the other hand is that the land is his ancestral property acquired by his ancestor Breman who was a broth...