[2007]DLCA6595 • February 16, 2007 • Court of Appeal
TEIKO AKRONG vs. ADU KOFI DJIN
The appellant claimed to be the accredited head of the Boi Kwao family and challenged the capacity of the 1st defendant to alienate a portion of the Aboasu land without his consent. The 1st defendant purportedly sold the land via a transaction documented in Exhibit 1, which the appellant was not party to.
read moreKUSI-APPIAH, J.A. This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Accra, dated 24 February, 2004. The facts giving rise to this action are very simple. The defendant in this action claimed to have purchased a 30 acre land at Aboasa Medie from Abusuapanyin Boye Okai, the first defendant at the trial court. According to the defendant, he acquired valid title to the land from Abusuapanyin Boye Okai who was held out by the plaintiffs family as their Head. He averred that the land was sold to him with the knowledge, consent and concurrence of the plaintiff’s family as the money was used to rehabilitate their family house at Ofankor. The plaintiff, on the other hand contended that, in 1992 he and the principal members of the family learnt of the sale of their family land by the first defendant to the second defendant (the defendant herein). He claimed that since Abusuapanyin Boye Okai had no capacity to transfer title in the land to the defendant herein, he summoned him bef.....