EBUSUAPANYIN JACOB, EMMANUEL ATTA BRACE (DECS’D) SUBSTITUTED BY MALLAM MUMUNI AND EFI EBUBONKO vs. NANA KWAME TOOSI II [2012]DLCA8397

EBUSUAPANYIN JACOB, EMMANUEL ATTA BRACE (DECS’D) SUBSTITUTED BY MALLAM MUMUNI AN... [2012]DLCA8397

Date	2012-11-15
Suit No.	SUIT NO. H1/21/12
Citation No.	[2012]DLCA8397

S.MARFUL-SAU J.A (PRESIDING)

C.J.HONYENUGA J.A

DENNIS D. ADJEI J.A

MR. H.H. HAYFORD ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

MR. MICHAEL ARTHUR DADZIE ESQ FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT

[2012]DLCA8397
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >EBUSUAPANYIN JACOB, EMMANUEL ATTA BRACE (DECS’D) SUBSTITUTED BY MALLAM MUMUNI AND EFI EBUBONKO<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>NANA KWAME TOOSI II<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, CAPE COAST]<o:p></o:p><div style="font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">SUIT NO. H1/21/12&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;DATE: 15TH NOVEMBER, 2012<o:p></o:p></div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR. H.H. HAYFORD ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p><div style="font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">MR. MICHAEL ARTHUR DADZIE ESQ FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p></div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">S.MARFUL-SAU J.A (PRESIDING), C.J.HONYENUGA J.A, DENNIS D. ADJEI J.A<o:p></o:p></div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></div>DENNIS ADJEI, J.A:<o:p></o:p>On 2nd June, 2008 the defendant/appellant herein filed an appeal against the decision of the High Court, Cape Coast delivered on 5th May, 2008 in which he lost. For the purposes of this appeal the defendant/appellant would be referred to as the Defendant and the plaintiff/respondent as Plaintiff.<o:p></o:p>The brief facts of this case were that the plaintiff was claiming ownership to Kusuku Bonsam lands which forms part of Eburbonko Stool lands.&nbsp; The plaintiff did not describe the identity of the land but rather attached to the writ of summons, two maps (site plans) which sought to delineate the disputed land.&nbsp; The trial High Court Judge gave judgment in favour of the plaintiff for all the reliefs endorsed on his writ of summons.<o:p></o:p>The defendant aggrieved by the judgment of the trial High Court appealed to this court to reverse the judgment on several reasons, particularly that the judgment was wrong because the identity of the subject matter of the litigation (the land) remains unknown and it sins against the time tested decisions which are to the effect that a party who fails to give a vivid description of his/her land to make it identifiable cannot succeed in claims for declaration of title and an order for perpetual injunction. See the case of Kwabena vs. Atuahene [1981] GLR 136.<o:p></o:p>The defendant filed 13 grounds of appeal and they are as follows:<o:p></o:p>“a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The trial Judge erred by holding in his judgment that the plaintiff discharged the duty imposed on him by law to prove the identity of the disputed land by the tendering of the plans used in the suit entitled KOW EYIE odikro of Eburbonko vs. Kofi Dadzie VII Odikro of Wioma when the defendant/appellant and his privies were not parties to the said suit.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>b. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The trial Judge by holding in his judgment that the plaintiff discharged the burden of proof imposed on him by law to prove the identity of the disputed land wrongly relied on the plan attached to the plaintiff’s statement of claim which had been falsified by the plaintiff by insertion therein “Akofurdo and Kusuku Bonsam” instead of the original two (2) plans forming part of the judgment and proceedings in the suit entitled EKOW EYIE VS. KOFI DADZIE VII tendered in evidence by the plaintiff/Respondent which plans did not contain “Akofordo and Kusuku-Bonsam lands.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>c. The Trial Judge should have dismissed the plaintiff’s case on grounds that the plaintiff failed to prove the identity of the land in dispute.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The trial Judge arrived at the wrong conclusion in his judgment to the effect that there is only one ‘Ameyaw’ as the trial Judge should not have limited himself to the plans (albeit the wrong one) but should have considered the totality of the proceedings in the Ekow Eyie vs. Kofi Dadzie case which would have revealed that Kow Eyie the plaintiff in that said case gave evidence to the effect that Ebubonko lands shared common boundary with Kwami Mensah’s land of Ameyaw&nbsp; Dadan.<o:p></o:p>e. The trial Judge erred in his judgment by not considering the evidence of the plaintiff/respondent to the effect that the defendant/appellant’s ancestor called Kwami Mensah had his own land.<o:p></o:p><</main>