EBU NTIAKO ESIA KOBINA vs. AHANTA TRADITIONAL COUNCIL AND EBU. NANA NKETSIA WEREK

DENNIS ADJEI, J.A. This is an interlocutory appeal against the ruling delivered by the High Court, Sekondi which refused the Defendants/Applicants application to dismiss the plaintiff/Respondent’s suit and plaintiff/Respondent’s suit and a further order by the trial court declining jurisdiction in the matter for want of jurisdiction. The facts giving rise to this appeal are that on 11th June,1998, the 2nd defendant herein and other filed a suit at the Judicial Committee of the Ahanta Traditional Council against Tutuhene Esi Atta and others. On 30th October, 1998, the Judicial Committee of the Ahanta Traditional Council gave judgment against the plaintiff herein and his family. The appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Western Region House of Chiefs and it affirmed the judgment of the trial Court on 9th December, 2001. On 6th August 2008, the Plaintiff filed the instant suit at the High court inviting the High Court to declare the two judgments given against the family of t...