HENRY BORTEY DUMAROH & 3 ORS vs CHARLES DUAMROH BORTEY

JUDGMENT 1] The principal issue that caused the parties in this suit to seek the intervention of the law court was: whether the land in dispute was the personal property of Charles Kwao Duamroh, as the plaintiffs asserted or whether the land in dispute was the property of the Duamroh family of Oyibi and Nungua, as asserted by the defendant. 2] The background to this dispute is that the plaintiffs, Henry, Charles, Isaac and Elijah Duamroh are children of the late C.K. Duamroh while the defendant, Charles Duamroh Bortey, is a paternal cousin of the plaintiffs. 3] The plaintiffs’ asserted that their grandfather, Nii Bortey Duamroh, was once chief of Oyibi. During his lifetime, he gave a piece of land measuring 110 by 100 feet to their father, C.K Duamroh, to farm and to use as his residence. According to the plaintiffs, their father built a mud house on a section of the land and was in occupation of the land until his death. 4] Again, the plaintiffs claimed that in accordance .....