[1961]DLSC285 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p> </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;"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#00B0F0">ADJEI III</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:#00B0F0"><o:p></o:p></span></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;"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#00B0F0"> vs.</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:#00B0F0"><o:p></o:p></span></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;"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica; color:#00B0F0">ADJEDU II</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#00B0F0"><o:p></o:p></span></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;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">[JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL].</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></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 class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 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; border: none; padding: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">[1961] GLR 178 </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">DATE: 21</span><sup><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">ST</span></sup><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"> MARCH, 1961</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p></span></b></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;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">A. GARFITT FOR THE APPELLANT</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></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;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">G. DOLD FOR THE RESPONDENT.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">CORAM: <o:p></o:p></span></b></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;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">LORD TUCKER, LORD KEITH OF AVONHOLM AND LORD HODSON</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 115%;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></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;"><b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">LORD KEITH OF AVANHOLM</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></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;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">He delivered the judgment of their Lordships. [He referred to the facts as set out in the headnote and the previous proceedings and continued:] The present proceedings were initiated by the Ohene of the Okadjakrom stool against the Ohene of the Atonkor stool for (1) declaration of title to the said land: (2) damages for trespass; and (3) injunction. He relied on the judgment of the 2nd July, 1940, and the subsequent interlocutory proceedings as constituting an estoppel per rem judicatam against the Atonkor stool. In the statement of defence the Atonkor stool contended that the judgment of the 2nd July, 1940, was not complete and did not constitute an estoppel per rem judicatam. It in turn claimed a declaration of title and an injunction. The Supreme Court (Korsah, Ag. C.J.) held that by virtue of the previous proceedings the Atonkor stool was estopped from denying the plaintiff’s title and granted perpetual injunction as craved. On appeal to the West African Court of Appeal (Ames, Ag. J.A., Coussey, P. and Jackson, Ag. J.A.) this judgment was set aside and it was ordered that the hearing of the two consolidated suits be continued.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></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;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">Ames, Ag. J.A. with whom Coussey, P. And Jackson, Ag. J.A. concurred, held, in their Lordships’ view rightly, that the judgment of the 2nd July, 1940, could not be read as a declaration of title in favour of the Okadjakrom stool. The Provincial Commissioner did not, he said, so regard it. “Otherwise”, he said, “what need to regret not being able to find out where Lilley intended his line to run.” His view is summarised in the penultimate paragraph of his judgment as follows:1(1)</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></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;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; 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;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">“Since the argument in court my attention has been drawn to a case which was before this court in 1947, Kwadjo and Another v. Kwasi. The judgment of this court, dated February 17, 1947, approved and applied an observation of this court made in an earlier case Kwasi v. Kwadjo about the