CECILIA AMPONSAH vs. YAA DUFIE

JUDGMENT PWAMANG, JSC:- My Lords, the parties to this appeal are disputing over ownership of House No 17, Block A, Atonsu Agogo, Kumasi which contains a number of buildings. The plaintiffs claimed in the High Court, Kumasi, that the buildings stand on land acquired some years ago by the late Akosua Addai and were put up by the joint efforts of her children who included Akwasi Kankam, Kwasi Abebreseh and Kwaku Nantwi. They sued the defendants because the defendants claimed that the property belonged to only Akwasi Kankam, Kwasi Abebreseh and Kwaku Nantwi and that it was these three who acquired the land and built the structures on it without any participation of Akosua Addai and her other children or any member of the family. Following some substitutions, the present parties are those that carried the fight to the apex court. The trial in the court of first instance was by oral and documentary evidence. We wish to refer to two key documents concerning the property in dispute. First...