PAUL KWEGYIR AGGREY vs. NANA ABA AND EKOW SMITH [2011]DLCA7944

Date	2011-07-14
Suit No.	CIVIL APEAL NO.H1/8/2010
Citation No.	[2011]DLCA7944

QUAYE JA (PRESIDING)

MARFUL-SAU JA

HONYENUGA JA

MR. KOJO ANAN FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT

NO APPEARANCE FOR DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS

[2011]DLCA7944
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >PAUL KWEGYIR
AGGREY<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>NANA ABA AND EKOW SMITH<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
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CIVIL
APEAL NO.H1/8/2010&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: 14TH JULY, 2011<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR.
KOJO ANAN FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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NO
APPEARANCE FOR DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <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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QUAYE
JA (PRESIDING), MARFUL-SAU JA, HONYENUGA JA<o:p></o:p>

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</div>MARFUL-SAU, JA <o:p></o:p>This
appeal is taken against the judgment of the High Court sitting at Agona
Swedru.&nbsp; The said judgment was delivered
on the 22nd day of October 2008.&nbsp;
In its judgment the trial High Court dismissed the Plaintiff’s claim
giving cause to this appeal filed on the 19th January 2009.<o:p></o:p>The
brief facts of the case are that the predecessor of the plaintiff namely Kobina
Domeyeh sold two parcels of land, adjacent to each other to one Yaw Nyarko the
husband of the 1st defendant; and one Andrews Kweku Keelson in the
years 1981 and 1971 respectively.&nbsp;
Andrews Kweku Keelson resold his plot of land to the 2nd
defendant in 1983.&nbsp; A new road was
constructed along the area where defendants had their lands.&nbsp; This resulted in a parcel of land in front of
defendants’ land, which land the plaintiff claimed belonged to his family, the
Yego Family of Agona Swedru, to which the original vendor of defendants Kobina
Domeyah, at the time of sale was the head.<o:p></o:p>Issues
were joined on these facts and at page 9 of the record of appeal appeared the
directions for the trial.&nbsp; The issues
which were adopted for trial on 15th April 2003 at page 41 of the
record were;<o:p></o:p>a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Whether or not the plaintiff
is entitled to his claim.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Whether or not the land in
dispute forms part of the ancestral land of the Yego family – Ankyiase Section.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;Whether or not the defendants have title to
the land in dispute and if so how was it acquired?<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Any other issue raised by
the pleadings.<o:p></o:p>The
plaintiff in this appeal formulated eight (8) grounds of appeal urging this
court to set aside the judgment of the trial court and judgment entered for him.<o:p></o:p>Upon
a careful examination of the record of appeal in this case, I find that the
trial of the case was procedurally flawed, to th</main>