PONG vs. MANTE IV AND OTHERS

JUDGMENT OF LASSEY J. Lassey J. [stated the facts as set out in the headnote and continued:] With respect to the liability of the respondents to the appellant the evidence led at the trial was that after the settlement of the dispute between the appellant and the third respondent had been announced, the fourth respondent, Yaw Adutwim, openly stated that the appellant was in possession of a document and demanded its production. Despite the strong objection raised by the appellant’s caretaker to the production of the said document he was forced under pressure to release it to the respondents. There was evidence which the trial court accepted that the appellant’s caretaker, Yaa Tanoa, objected to the production of the said document on the ground that the fact that the appellant had in his possession a document relating to the land in dispute was never raised as matter of dispute for any decision by the arbitrators, and therefore was outside their province as such. After some heated a...