CHEGU vs. DAGOMBA

JUDGMENT OF EDWARD WIREDU J. This is an appeal from the decision of the Yendi District Court Grade II by which the court upheld the claim by the plaintiff-respondent (who shall hereafter be referred to simply as the plaintiff) against the defendant-appellant (who shall also hereafter be referred to as the defendant for “compensatory damages of ¢400.00 for the defendant’s cattle destroyed the plaintiff’s farm crops to wit: guinea corn, maize, after several repeated warnings to the defendant by the plaintiff.” The brief facts of this case may be stated as follows: The parties to this suit are adjoining land owners. Their two lands are separated by a valley. The evidence shows that on the plaintiff’s farm were grown some food crops made up of guinea corn and maize. The defendant also owned some herds of cattle on his farm which used to go and graze in the valley. It is the plaintiff’s complaint that the cows of the defendant had been straying onto his farm causing ...