ADDAI v. BONSU II [1961]DLSC277

Date	1961-05-29
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1961]DLSC277

VAN LARE JSC

SARKODEE-ADOO JSC

AKIWUMI JSC

N. Y. B. ADADE FOR THE APPELLANT

NO APPEARANCE FOR THE DEFENDANT

[1961]DLSC277
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<p align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">ADDAI<o:p></o:p><p align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">vs.<o:p></o:p><p align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">BONSU II<o:p></o:p><p align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[SUPREME COURT]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">

</div>COUNSEL:
<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0in;">N. Y. B. ADADE FOR THE APPELLANT.<o:p></o:p>

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0in;">NO APPEARANCE FOR THE DEFENDANT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0in;">VAN LARE,
SARKODEE-ADOO AND AKIWUMI, JJ.S.C.<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">VAN LARE J.S.C.<o:p></o:p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">He delivered the judgment of the court. The plaintiff
bought the cocoa farm, the subject-matter in dispute in this case, from one
Hamidu Yadiga, the successor of one Salifu Moshie, who was during his lifetime
the chief or headman of the Zongo community at Kenyasi. Salifu Moshie, the
predecessor of Hamidu Yadiga, obtained a grant of a piece of Kenyasi stool land
upon which he cultivated this cocoa farm being at Kenyasi No. 1, on land
commonly known and called “Afrikyire” otherwise known as “Abukoroso”.<o:p></o:p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">It will appear that, as might be expected, some members
of the Zongo community voluntarily assisted in the cultivation of the farm for
their headman but for all practical purposes it was known to be the
self-acquired property of the headman, Salifu Moshie, who during his lifetime
enjoyed it as such and paid yearly tributes to the defendant stool. After the
death of Salifu Moshie the Zongo community elected one Tahiri Moshie to the
headship of the Zongo community of Kenyasi and it is not in dispute that Hamidu
Yadiga, Salifu’s maternal brother, succeeded Salifu as to his self-acquired
property.<o:p></o:p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">In order to test whether the cocoa farm in dispute in
this case and another farm at Maaso believed to have been cultivated by the
Zongo community for the late Salifu Moshie were or were not attached to the
office of the headship of the Zongo community of Kenyasi, the new headman,
Tahiri Moshie, instituted an action against Hamidu Yadiga and some others
claiming a declaration of title that as headman of the Zongo community of
Kenyasi he was the owner of the two farms concerned, including the one in
dispute i</main>