SUMMEY vs. YOHUNO AND OTHERS

JUDGMENT OF CRABBE J.S.C. This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of Ollennu, J., sitting in the Land Division of the High Court of Justice dated the 29th March, 1960, which allowed an appeal for the decision of the Manya Krobo Court “A” Division, dated the 3rd June, 1959. The dispute between the parties concerns a piece of land situate at a place called Akatawiah. The plaintiff by her writ of summons claimed damages for trespass, and an injunction restraining the first and second defendant, their servants or agents from committing further acts of trespass on the land at Akatawiah. On the application of third defendant he was joined to the suit by an order of the trial native court, dated the 3th April, 1959. The plaintiff claimed title through her grandmother, one Maku, deceased; the defence on the other hand appears to be that the land, the subject-matter of the dispute, is one rope out of three ropes of land which was purchased by one Tettey Djokobre, the fathe...