GLADYS OBENEWA AFARI vs. NANA DONKOR MANIANOR II & 3 ORS

JUDGMENT KOOMSON, JA The facts that occasioned this appeal are that, the Plaintiff/Appellant (hereafter called ‘‘the Appellant’’), claims to be the lawful owner of a piece of land situate at Obosomase in the Akwapim South District of the Eastern Region. That she became the owner of the land after her father, James Winfred Afari, a native of Obosomase, gifted the land to her because she was the only daughter to have married from his hometown of Obosomase. According to the Appellant, her father purchased the land in dispute for eighty pounds (£80) from Kwasi Danso (the then Mankrado of Obosomase). It was contended further by the Appellant that after her father purchased the land, its boundaries were physically marked with ntome trees. In exercising acts of possession over the land, James Winfred Afari gave out portions of the land to his brother Opanyin Kwame Armah, Opanyin Kofi Amoah, one Mr. Mensah and family, Mr. Ametepe and his family and a native of Nungua called Aprodo...