OKOMFO AFUAH vs. SARBAH

The plaintiff in this action is claiming a declaration of title to a piece of land situate and lying at a place commonly known and called Odumtia. The said land is near Amasaman on the Accra — Nsawam road, and it comprises an area of about 180 acres. The plaintiff is also claiming perpetual injunction. I must remark that the evidence given by the plaintiff in support of her claim was quite simple and straightforward, but she was subjected to a lengthy cross-examination on matters most of which were irrelevant. The plaintiff's case is that her father, called Quaye Mensah, was the first to occupy the land in dispute. The father cultivated the land and founded a village thereon. The father named the village and the surrounding lands after an odum tree which the father found on the land; and that is why the village is called Odumtia. The said odum tree is still standing on the land. During the father's lifetime, the father believed this odum tree was a fetish, and so the father.....