NUMO ALFRED QUAYE vs. LEMUEL MARTEY QUARSHIE & LETICIA NARKOUR NARTEY

JUDGMENT ADJEI-FRIMPONG, JSC: My Lords, for the second time in a few months, this Court is being called upon to pronounce on the ownership of the land, subject matter of this suit. The earlier decision was delivered on 18th December 2024 in the suit intituled NUMO ALFRED QUAYE VRS EDUSEI POKU, Suit No. J4/15/2022. On account of the apparent legal implications the earlier decision bears upon this, we desire to recount what transpired therein in some detail. Henceforth the earlier case will be referred to as the “EDUSEI POKU’S CASE. The Plaintiff therein Numo Alfred Quaye who is the same Plaintiff/Respondent/Appellant/Cross-Respondent here (herein ‘Plaintiff’) commenced that suit in the High Court against a certain Lawyer Edusei Poku who died in the course of those proceedings. He was substituted for by his wife Veronica who pursued the matter up to this Court. The claim the Plaintiff made which was not any different from what obtains here was that, the land in dispute belonge...