AKONA FAMILY OF KWAHINKROM PER EBUSUAPANYIN KWAMI ACKON (PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT) vs. KWAME MMONYI AND KOFI EYEE-KORSAH (DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS) NANA OKRAKOW II (CO-DEFENDANT/APPELLANT) [2009]DLCA7744

AKONA FAMILY OF KWAHINKROM PER EBUSUAPANYIN KWAMI ACKON (PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT) v... [2009]DLCA7744

Date	2009-07-30
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO.: H1/172/08
Citation No.	[2009]DLCA7744

F. KUSI APPIAH J.A. (PRESIDING)

K. A. ACQUAYE J.A.

E. K. AYEBI J.A.

MR. ACKAAH GYASI FOR DEFTS’/CO-DEFT’/APPELLANTS

MR. BAFFOUR DWUMAH FOR PLT’/RESPONDENT

[2009]DLCA7744
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >AKONA FAMILY
OF KWAHINKROM PER EBUSUAPANYIN KWAMI ACKON<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>KWAME MMONYI
AND KOFI EYEE-KORSAH<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>NANA OKRAKOW
II<o:p></o:p>(CO-DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL
APPEAL NO.:&nbsp; H1/172/08&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE:
30TH JULY, 2009<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR.
ACKAAH GYASI FOR DEFTS’/CO-DEFT’/APPELLANTS<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MR.
BAFFOUR DWUMAH FOR PLT’/RESPONDENT<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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F.
KUSI APPIAH J.A. (PRESIDING), K. A. ACQUAYE J.A., E. K. AYEBI J.A.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>AYEBI J.A.<o:p></o:p>This is an appeal from the judgment of the late
Justice Tom Bentil sitting as an additional Circuit Court Judge at the Cape
Coast Circuit Court dated 27/10/05.<o:p></o:p>The judgment went in favour of the plaintiff on a
claim for:<o:p></o:p>(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;
¢5,000,000.00
damages for trespass to the plaintiff’s stool land known and called Aborobeano
Village bounded by the stool lands of Dominase, Aboransa and Nsona of Komenda.<o:p></o:p>(b)&nbsp; Recovery of ¢1.8m being monies collected by the
defendants from persons to whom the defendants had made grants of the
plaintiff’s land unlawfully.<o:p></o:p>(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;
Perpetual
injunction restraining the defendants, their agents, assigns or servants from
further future interference with the plaintiff’s said stool land.<o:p></o:p>At the onset of the judgment, the learned judge
lamented the difficulty in tracing some of the evidence in the suit which was
launched in 1992.&nbsp; He reviewed the
evidence as a whole and found the plaintiff’s case not frivolous.&nbsp; He therefore declared defendants and
co-defendant as trespassers on the plaintiff’s land.&nbsp; Dissatisfied with the decision of the trial
judge, defendants and co-defendant have appealed to this court to reverse the
judgment in their favour on the grounds that:<o:p></o:p>(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;
The
judgment is against the weight of evidence adduced at the trial<o:p></o:p>(b)&nbsp; The award of ¢5m an</main>