GILBERT OWUSU-YIANOMA vs. AMOA KORANGTEN & 2 ORS.

APALOO, J.A. This is an appeal from the decision of the Circuit Court Asamankese dated 26th April 2000. The parties to this suit are closely related and hail from Mamfe in the Akwapim District of the Eastern Region. The Plaintiff/Appellant alleged that his father acquired a piece of land, the subject matter of this suit and put the first tenant Kwadwo Afum to cultivate it and after his death, one Madam Manko was appointed caretaker who in turn appointed Kofi Ayigbe as the tenant farmer. The evidence is that Kofi Ayigbe remained on the land until about 1982 when he departed to Wassa in the Western Region to cultivate his own farm. The Co-defendant who claims the land for herself and some other women pleaded the same facts as to the persons who acted for and on behalf of the parties, to wit, Kwadwo Afum, Madam Manko and Kofi Ayigbe. She claims these named persons acted for and on behalf of her predecessors through whom the land came into her possession and the possession of the oth...