NANA AMPAH-ANDOH VII vs. PARAMOUNT STOOL OF BREMAN ESSIAM KOBINA MENSAH NANA OGYAMON ATWER II ENYAN DENYIRA STOOL BREMAN ESSIAM STOOL AJUMAKU STOOL

SAEED K. GYAN, J.A Having scoured the record, it may, with the utmost respect, be observed, as a preface, that a combination of circumstances involving the parties to the suit, Counsel in the case and the Court below respecting the manner generally in which this matter had been dealt with in the trial Court may have led to apparent mis-steps and unseemly legal or procedural slips or errors that had unleashed a cauldron which had carried an otherwise simple and ordinary case of alleged trespass to family land on a roller coaster journey spanning an incredible Thirty-Nine (39) years and finally landing it, as it were, in a legal quagmire and obvious quandary. I believe presenting a back ground and situating this case in proper perspective may be in order. On 13th July, 1977 Nana Ampa-Andoh Vii who described himself as Twafohene of Enyam Denkyira for himself and on behalf of his Nsona Stool family of Denkyira aforesaid sued the Paramount Chief of Essiam and two others seeking a ...