SEBEH vs. SEKYIM

JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU J.S.C. Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The appellant’s stool, the wantram stool, and the respondent’s stool, the Anfransi stool, the plaintiff and defendant respectively in the trial local court, divisional stools in the Wasa Amanfi State, are owners of adjoining land. Their dispute in this suit is the correct boundary between their two lands; it is the fourth litigation they have had over their boundary. The first dispute was in 1907, and the second in 1951; each of these disputes determined with an award of arbitration; the arbitrator in the second case was the Omanhene of their state with his elders and councillors. The award of the second arbitration rejected the boundary laid by the first award and fixed the Mamia river or Mamire river as the boundary between the parties. The third was the subject of court proceedings which began in the Wasa Confederacy Native Court A and finally determined in the Land Court, Sekondi, in a judgment of v...