JOSHUA ATTOH QUARSHIE vs. NII KOJO DANSO THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, LANDS COMMISSION AND 2 OTHERS

AGYEMANG, JA: In this interlocutory appeal, the appellant seeks a reversal of the ruling of the Land Court, Accra, delivered on the 10th of March 2015. The matters that have given rise to the appeal are as follows: On the 13thof April 2005, the High Court gave judgment for Nii Kojo Danso I, who sued as representative of the Ajumanku Dawurampong Royal family and Clan of Nii Kofi Akrashie We of Ngleshie Alata, James Town, Accra (hereafter referred to alternately as “the family”). The judgment was against the defendants/respondents herein, and it was for the payment of the sum of GHC 57,433,900 being part-payment of compensation under EI 27, S.1 (1) of the State Lands Act (Act 125) as amended, for the compulsory acquisition by the Ghana Government, of Dansoman Lands. It is uncontroverted that in the lifetime of the original plaintiff Nii Kojo Danso I, the appellant (head of Otukunor We (one of the Divisions of the family),was authorised by the family acting by its principal member...