JOHN KOFI AMPRATWUM vs. ATTA SARPONG AND KWAKU ACQUAH

KUSI-APPIAH, J.A.: This appeal is from the decision of the High Court, Mampong-Ashanti, given on 28th March, 2004 per W.H.K. Addo J. by which the learned Judge entered judgment for the plaintiff/respondent (herein after called the plaintiff) against the defendants/appellants (hereinafter called the defendants) and decreed titled in the disputed land in the plaintiff. The case of the plaintiff as gathered from his pleadings and especially evidence at the trial, is that, he is the head of Bretuo family of Dadieso near Mampong-Ashanti and he sues on his own behalf and on behalf of his family. He contended that he has been in possession of the disputed land lying at a place commonly known as Abenuase on Mampong stool land and shares a boundary with Gyasehene of Mampong/Ashanti, Atuahene and Yaw Sarfo. He claimed that his ancestors have been in effective possession of the disputed land without any interference for almost two hundred years until the present trespass by the defendant...