TAA vs. FREMPONG & ANOR [1959]DLCA2060

Date	1959-03-16
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1959]DLCA2060

KORSAH C.J.

VAN LARE J.A.

OLLENNU J.

KORANTENG ADDOW WAS HEARD FOR APPELLANT (KWAME FREMPONG).

DR. DANQUAH FOR RESPONDENT (AFUA TAA) NOT CALLED ON TO ARGUE.

[1959]DLCA2060
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >TAA<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;vs. <o:p></o:p>FREMPONG &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;
&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;[1959] GLR 128<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DATE:
16TH MARCH, 1959.<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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KORANTENG
ADDOW WAS HEARD FOR APPELLANT (KWAME FREMPONG).<o:p></o:p>

DR.
DANQUAH FOR RESPONDENT (AFUA TAA) NOT CALLED ON TO ARGUE.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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KORSAH C.J., VAN LARE J.A. AND OLLENNU
J.<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>JUDGMENT OF KORSAH C.J<o:p></o:p>Korsah
C.J. delivered the judgment of the Court. There is no merit in the substantive
appeal, and Counsel has acted wisely in not continuing to argue it.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>It
appears, however, that in the course of the proceedings in the Court below, the
learned judge at a certain stage erroneously gave himself jurisdiction, and
granted special leave to appeal from an interlocutory order, in which an appeal
did not lie to the Land Court. He further fixed the same date for the hearing
of the substantive appeal as for the hearing of the purported interlocutory
appeal.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Even if
the Court had had power to grant special leave, it was incumbent thereafter to
impose conditions. This the learned Judge did not do; no conditions were in
fact fulfilled, nor could any conditions be fulfilled. Therefore no
interlocutory appeal could have been pending in the Court on the date which the
Court fixed.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In giving
judgment, the learned Judge expressed himself as having merged the
interlocutory appeal with the substantive appeal, when in fact there was only
one appeal (namely, the substantive matter) before him. We therefore expunge
that part of the judgment which suggests the merger of an interlocutory appeal
with the substantive appeal. Subject to this, the appeal is dismissed.<o:p></o:p>

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