REINDORF AND ANKRAH vs. AMADU, BRAIMAH AND NIKOI O’LAI

JUDGMENT OF KORSAH C.J. This is an appeal from the judgment of D.E Gwira, Esq., Commissioner of Assize and Civil Pleas sitting in the Land Court, in a suit originally instituted by Nii Akrama Nukpa as head of Onamrokor family against Amadu and Braimah as defendants, in the Ga Native ‘B’ Court. The claim reads: “The defendants are licensees working a quarry on a portion of the plaintiff’s family land at Apenkwa subject to the payment of monthly toll or rent of £G5. The defendant has not paid such monthly rent for the past six months (six months inclusive) and plaintiff therefore claims the sum of £G30 arrears of rents or tolls due and (2) perpetual injunction to stop the defendants from further working on the plaintiff’s land for failing to pay his tolls aforesaid.” By an order of Jackson, J., the case was transferred from the Ga Native ‘B’ Court to the Lands Division of the High Court. While the case was pending in the High Court, Dr. C. E. Reindorf was substitut...