WORDIE AND OTHERS vs. AWUDU BUKARI

JUDGMENT OF ARCHER J.A. Archer J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. Twenty-five years have almost elapsed since Jackson J. delivered his monumental judgment in Ashrifi v. Golightly (1951) D.C. (Land) ‘48-’51, 312, popularly known as the Kokomlemle consolidated cases and one would have thought that there would be no further controversy as that judgment had finally decided the boundary between the Ga, Gbese and Korle stools on the one hand and the Osu stool on the other, a boundary which was confirmed by the West African Court of Appeal sub nom. Golightly v. Ashrifi (1955) 14 W.A.C.A. 676, and by the Privy Council [1961] G.L.R. 28, P.C. Unfortunately, in this appeal, controversy has been generated by the inability of the parties to produce the original plan by reference to which Jackson J. wrote and delivered his judgment. We think this should not be permitted to re-occur. The facts briefly are that the first appellant brought a suit in the Circuit Court, Accra, claim...