REPUBLIC vs. CONSTANCE AFFUL, THOMAS AFFUL AND GIFTY MENSAH, EX PARTE WILLIAM MENSAH

RICHARD ADJEI-FRIMPONG JA: The contempt proceedings on appeal before us ensued from a land suit involving, much regrettably, siblings and their mother. The plaintiff in that suit, now the appellant before us, commenced the action initially against a brother and sister who are the 1st and 2nd respondents herein. Subsequently, his two other sisters together with their mother were joined to the action upon their application to the court. The 3rd respondent before us was one of the sisters in that application. In the suit, the appellant had claimed that his late father, one Godfred Kojo Mensah who was also the father of five of his sisters including the 3rd respondent but excluding the 1st and 2nd respondents (presumably born to a different father), acquired the two plots of land, the subject matter of the suit for them. He, and the other children of the father had developed portions of the plots, taken possession and placed tenants on other portions. It was the enjoyment of his posses...