NANA ASANI II vs. ATTA PANYIN AND ANOTHER AND ATTA AND PANYIN AND ANOTHER vs. ESSUMANG (CONSOLIDATED) [1970]DLHC2134

NANA ASANI II vs. ATTA PANYIN AND ANOTHER AND ATTA AND PANYIN AND ANOTHER vs. E... [1970]DLHC2134

Date	1970-05-01
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1970]DLHC2134

OWUSU J.

JAMES MERCER FOR THE PLAINTIFF IN SUIT NO. 21/63.

AGYEMAN FOR THE DEFENDANTS IN SUIT NO. 21/33.

AMPOSAH-DADZIE FOR THE PLAINTIFFS IN SUIT NO. 10/66.

JAMES MERCER FOR THE DEFENDANT IN SUIT NO. 10/66.

[1970]DLHC2134
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >NANA ASANI II vs. ATTA PANYIN AND ANOTHER AND ATTA<o:p></o:p>AND<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;PANYIN AND ANOTHER vs. ESSUMANG
(CONSOLIDATED)<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; [HIGH COURT, CAPE COAST]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <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;[1971] 1 GLR 166<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DATE:
1 MAY 1970.<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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JAMES
MERCER FOR THE PLAINTIFF IN SUIT NO. 21/63.<o:p></o:p>

AGYEMAN
FOR THE DEFENDANTS IN SUIT NO. 21/33.<o:p></o:p>

AMPOSAH-DADZIE
FOR THE PLAINTIFFS IN SUIT NO. 10/66.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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OWUSU J.<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>JUDGMENT OF OWUSU J.<o:p></o:p>In 1958
the first defendant, as the head of the stool family of Ewumaso in the Breman
Asikuma Traditional Area and as the representative of the stool and the oman of
Ewumaso, and the second defendant as the Omanhene of Breman Asikuma Traditional
Area instituted an action against the plaintiff in suit No. 21/63 as the ohene
and representative of the stool and the oman of Bedum also in the Breman
Asikuma Traditional Area, claiming as follows:<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">“(1) For
defendant to declare his title to all that piece or parcel of land situate at
Bedum in the Cape Coast District commonly called Bedum land which is part and
parcel of the Ewumaso stool land called Edumangya valuing £G40,000, attached to
plaintiff’s stool now occupied by and in possession of the defendant and his
people by the permission of the plaintiff, bounded on the north by
Breman-Asikuma stool lands, on south by Kweku Koom of Beseasi’s land and by
lands belonging to Messrs. Yaw Anahuma and Egyir Ahum of Esiam, on east by
Breman-Asikuma stool lands, and on west by land of Kojo Esiam of Anyinasu; and
(2) For defendant and his people, servants, agents, tenants and workmen and all
others claiming right of access to the said piece or parcel of land derived
from the defendant to be restrained on Oath from interfering or in anyway
dealing with the land the subject-matter of the dispute.”<o:p></o:p>Earlier
in 1943, the predecessor of the second defendant, the Omanhene of
Breman-Asikuma had obtained judgment in respect of this same Bedum land against
the Omanhene of Breman-Essiam in a case heard by the Judicial Committee of the
Provisional Council of Chiefs, Cape Coast. The judgment was confirmed by
Divisional Court, Cape Coast. The Ewumaso stool is a sub-stool to Breman-Asikuma
and the caretaker of the Bedum land. In the late 1950’s the Bedum stool began
to allocate portions of the Bedum land to strangers without reference to the
defendants and claimed that the Bedum stool was the owner of the land. This
action of the Bedum stool resulted in the 1958 action.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>That
action commenced at the Native Court B of Breman-Asikuma, but was transferred
in 1959 to the Land Court, Cape Coast. At the hearing of this transferred suit
the plaintiff, then defendant, counterclaimed for title relying inter alia on a
gift of the land by the defendants confirmed by a document dated 23 April 1943.
This document was executed during the 1943 litigation by the accredited
representatives of both defendants and purported to make an out-right gift of
the land to the plaintiff. Judgment in that suit entitled Atta Panyin v. Asani
II [1961] G.L.R. 305 which was delivered by Adumua-Bossman J. (as he then was)
on 9 June 1961, granted the defendants herein a declaration of title to the
Bedum land, but their claim for possession and an injunction was refused. The
headnote to the report at p. 306 reads:<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">“(1) by
standing by whilst the title to the land was being litigated between the
[Breman-Asikuma] stool and the Breman-Esiam stool, and by further giving evidence
in favour of the [Asikuma] stool ... the [Bedum] stool is estopped by conduct
from denying the title of the plaintiff [in suit No. 21/63]; <o:p></o:p>