NANA YIADOM BOAKYE AND MR. ADDAE vs. JOSEPH BOAKYE AGYEMAN AND 3 OTHERS

AYEBI, JA 1. This is an appeal against the ruling of the High Court, Kumasi wherein the trial judge ruled that a preliminary legal issue raised and argued is not appropriate to dispose of plaintiffs/respondents’ claim and directed that a full trial should be held. 2. From the pleadings, one Nana Owusu Yaw Ababio alias Nana Yiadom Bauchie Acheampong alias Kwabena Acheampong was the Kaasehene on Baaye Siakwan Kuampah Stool from 1963 to 2008 when he died. The plaintiffs/respondents say they are administrators of his estate. According to them, in appreciation of the invaluable services the late chief rendered to the people of Kaase, the chiefs and elders gifted 62.50 acres of Kaase Stool land to him personally. 3. In paragraph 5 of their statement of claim, they described the land as “situate at a place commonly known and called Asaago on Baaye Siakwan Kuampah Stool land also known as Site for Industrial and Residential Estate in the Nkinkasie-Sokoban Wood Village layout including...