NETTEY vs. ODJIDJA & ANOR. [1959]DLCA2027

Date	1959-06-08
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1959]DLCA2027

GRANVILLE SHARP J. A

ACOLATSE J.

SMITH J.

[1959]DLCA2027
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153">NETTEY <o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
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153">ODJIDJA &amp; ANOR.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[COURT OF APPEAL]<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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DATE:
8TH JUNE, 1959.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>CORAM:
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GRANVILLE SHARP J. A., ACOLATSE J. AND
SMITH J.<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>JUDGMENT OF GRANVILLE SHARP J.A.<o:p></o:p>This is
an appeal from a decision of the Judge in the Land Court who, on the 31st
December, 1955, directed that judgment be entered for the defendants, the
respondents in this Court, in a suit in which the appellant claimed a
declaration of title to land situated at South Adabraka, damages for trespass
and recovery of possession and other ancillary relief.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>There is
an interesting history attaching to the land in dispute, and this may usefully
be outlined at the outset. The appellant based her claim to title on a Deed of
Conveyance dated 13th June, 1949 between herself and the then representatives
of the Nah Korley Family as vendors. The first respondent is in possession as a
tenant of Amarh the second respondent, who claimed at one time the right and
title to ownership of the land through one Isaac Fiscian, from whom he said he
had purchased under an Indenture dated the 18th July, 1931. This claim was
tested in proceedings instituted in 1933 by one S. Q. Nelson, who sued Amarh in
trespass. The course of this action was protracted, and it was not until 1941
that a conclusion was reached, as the result of which Amarh paid to Nelson a
sum of £67 for the right to remain in possession. Nelson claimed title through
Isaac Fiscian and gave evidence on behalf of Fiscian when in 1936 one Hammond,
a member of the Nah Korley family, sued him and claimed title to the land in an
action before the Gbese Mantse. In this action Hammond succeeded in recovering
judgment on behalf of the family.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In 1934
this same Hammond brought an action before the Paramount Chief of the Ga State
against Amarh and another in respect of the same land, but no more was heard of
this proceeding after the<o:p></o:p>Deputy
Commissioner of the Eastern Province had, on the 15th September,
1935 refused to transfer it to the High Court as requested by the defendants.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>It seems
that Hammond, while the suit between Nelson and Amarh, above referred to, was
pursuing its protracted course, thought it wiser to protect his own interest
and title in his action against Fiscian, through whom Nelson was claiming. In
this Hammond again on behalf of the family succeeded in establishing title to a
large area of land, including the land in dispute in the present case.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
defence to the appellant’s claim before the trial-Judge was that the respondent
and his predecessors had been in long and undisturbed possession long before
Ashaley Okoe and others purported to convey to the appellant, that Nelson had
been in possession since 1920, and further:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">“To the
full knowledge of Mr. R. Ashaley Okoe, the said Mr. S, Q. Nelson successfully
litigated his title to that land between the years 1933 and 1941, the said suit
commenced in the Ga Mantse’s Tribunal; it went up to the West African Court of
Appeal, it was remitted to the Ga Mantse for fresh trial and was finally
determined by the said Ga Mantse’s Tribunal. “The plaintiff’s vendor Mr. R.
Ashaley Okoe was the Registrar of the Ga Mantse’s Tribunal; he was the one who
took down the </main>