ELIZABETH ABBEW JACKSON vs. ESTHER ANDERSON

L. L. MENSAH, J.A. This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Sekondi dated the 17th day of March 2006 in favour of the Plaintiff/Respondent who will in this judgment be referred to as the Plaintiff against the Defendant/Appellant who will be referred to as the Defendant. Facts: The facts of this case are that Elizabeth Abbew Jackson left the shores of Ghana for the United Kingdom in 1975. She got employed at the British Railways in Liverpool as a ticket examiner. Out of her earnings she sent goods in commercial quantities among which were shoes, clothes, fridges etc. to her brother James Abbew Jackson (deceased) who died in February 1988. The brother was instructed by Plaintiff to use the proceeds of the goods to acquire a number of houses, three of which are in Takoradi and one at Bubiashie, Accra. The houses however seemed not to have documents on them to bear Plaintiff’s name. The Plaintiff however tendered a number of documents as correspondence between h.....