ANTWI vs. AMPONSAH AND ANOTHER

JUDGMENT OF HAYFRON-BENJAMIN J. The plaintiff by his writ of summons issued on 9 December 1960 claims an order of this court declaring his title to a house at Sagyimase in the Akim Abuakwa Traditional Area, an order for recovery of possession of the said house, £G300 damages for trespass, an injunction to restrain the defendants, and compensation for mesne profits. The land on which the said house is built is bounded on the north by Opanin Kwasi Tutu’s house, on the south by Opanin Kofi Mabreh’s house, on the east by Opanin Yaw Akyiano’s house, and on the west by Opanin Kwame Yeboah’s house. The plaintiff’s statement of claim filed on 10 February 1961 does not repeat the claim for mesne profits. On the authority of Cargill v. Bower1 he is deemed to have elected to abandon it. Nothing further need be said about this part of the claim. The plaintiff’s case as appearing on his pleading is that he was for seventeen years the odikro of Sagyimase. He abdicated in 1959 aft...