NII LANTE MILLS vs. MILDRED AMA WOODE

ADJEI-FRIMPONG, J.A The resolved facts of this case, as we gather, are largely straight forward. The plaintiff/respondent who we shall refer to as plaintiff, claims ownership of the land, subject matter of the suit, whose identity was found at the trial not to be in doubt, through the Nungua Stool. He acquired the land by way of assignment from one Kwabena Nkrumah in June 1990 and had title registered in his name. Kwabena Nkrumah, the assignor, had taken a lease of the land from the Nungua Stool represented by Nii Odai Ayiku in 1975. This lease had also been registered. Whilst the plaintiff’s interest was subsisting, one Nii Kotey Amli, head of the La Klanna Quarter, acting upon a 1991 judgment he obtained in a land suit contested against one Rebecca Kuffour (Suit No. CCL 67/89) entered upon the land as his family property and granted same to the defendant/appellant (defendant). In an ensuing tussle between the two rival grantees, the plaintiff caused damage to a development ca.....