MARTEY AND OTHERS vs. APPEADU (NO 2)

AMUAH JA. This is an appeal from a ruling of Owusu J granting the plaintiffs’ application for an order for interim injunction pending the full determination of the case between the parties. An application for an order for the appointment of a receiver and manager was also granted because the learned trial judge found that there was need for it. The facts leading to this appeal are briefly set out as follows: According to the plaintiffs-respondents (hereinafter called “the mission”) they acquired (a) Plot Block P Suame, Kumasi and (b) Plot Open-Space Suame Extension, Kumasi from the Atutue stool and the Ghana Government respectively and built houses on them which are now being used as schools. The funds for the erection of the mosque were donated during a convention organised by the mission in 1979. They further claimed that the defendant-appellant, hereinafter called the “the defendant”, was appointed by the mission as a headmaster of the schools to manage them and that the ...