PROF. STEPHEN ADEI AND MRS. GEORGINA ADEI, vs. GRACE ROBERTSON AND THE SEMPE STOOL

DZAMEFE, JA The plaintiff/respondents are a married couple living and working at Legon-Accra. They aver in 1979 they purchased the property in dispute at Sowutuom Accra from the Abola Piam (Tunma We) family of Accra acting per its joint heads of family and lawful representatives. The land was covered by deed of conveyance which was duly registered at the land Registry as No 2447/1985. In 1985 they once again negotiated and purchased from one Madam Abena Asi, a grantee of Abola Piam (Tunma We) who are the allodial owners of Sowutuom lands, two different parcels of land adjoining their earlier grant. These two different grants are covered respectively by two deeds of conveyance stamped and registered as Registry No 507/1986 and 508/1986. They went into immediate possession of these three different parcels of land by fixing corner pillars on the lands and subsequently constructed a two bedroom house on it and put in a caretaker. In all they purchased eight plots of land. In or abou...