NUAMAH vs. FRIMPONG

The plaintiff sued the defendants herein for failing to make good expenses he incurred on their behalf when at their request he engaged a lawyer to defend a relation of theirs who was involved in a criminal case. Since they failed to pay the expenses he brought an action against them claiming ¢200.00 damages. He succeeded in that action and was adjudged to recover that amount from the defendants. As the defendants did not satisfy that judgment debt he sued out a fieri facias to sell the property involved herein. When the property, a dwelling-house, was attached the claimant interpleaded. And this appeal arose out of the suit. The claimant claimed the property to be his own. He said that he built it and allowed the fourth defendant, a relation of his who is an invalid, to occupy it during her infirmity. The trial magistrate would seem to have accepted the evidence adduced by the claimant about the status of the property but held that the fourth defendant then had a life interest ....