THE REPUBLIC vs. BAFFOUR YAMOAH PONKOH AND NANA ASIEDU AKORAH EX-PARTE: OPANIN YAW KRAH [2013]DLCA6611

THE REPUBLIC vs. BAFFOUR YAMOAH PONKOH AND NANA ASIEDU AKORAH EX-PARTE: OPANIN... [2013]DLCA6611

Date	2013-02-28
Suit No.	SUIT NO: H1/107/09
Citation No.	[2013]DLCA6611

KORBIEH J.A (PRESIDING)

DORDZIE (MRS) J.A

SOWAH (MRS.) J.A

MR. KWODWO ERSKINE FOR APPLICANTS/APPELLANTS.

MR. JAMES AHENKORAH FOR RESPONDENTS/RESPONDENTS

[2013]DLCA6611
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>BAFFOUR
YAMOAH PONKOH AND NANA ASIEDU AKORAH<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>EX-PARTE:
OPANIN YAW KRAH<o:p></o:p>(APPELLANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</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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NO: H1/107/09&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 28TH
FEBRUARY, 2013<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:
<o:p></o:p>MR. KWODWO ERSKINE FOR
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RESPONDENTS/RESPONDENTS <o:p></o:p>

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DORDZIE, (MRS) J.A AND SOWAH, (MRS.) J.A<o:p></o:p>

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</div>C. H. SOWAH JA <o:p></o:p>BACKGROUND
FACTS <o:p></o:p>This
is an appeal against the Ruling of the High Court, Koforidua, dismissing the
applicants/appellants motion for attachment of the respondents for contempt.
The Ruling was delivered on 7th February 2006. <o:p></o:p>In
this appeal, the applicant/appellants will be referred to simply as the
appellants, and the respondents/ respondents as the respondents. <o:p></o:p>The
facts of the case as gleaned from the record of appeal are that a dispute
between the Asenie and Aduana families of Ntronang in the Akim Kotoku
Traditional Area as to which of the two families had the right to put someone
on the stool as Odikro of Ntronang was adjudicated upon by the Judicial
Committee of the Akim Kotoku Traditional Council. [Hereinafter referred to as
the Traditional Council] <o:p></o:p>The
parties in that Suit were Opanin Yaw Krah and another (since deceased and
substituted by the two appellants herein) as plaintiffs representing the Asenie
family, and Baffour Yamoah Ponkoh [the 1st Respondent herein] as defendant. On
20th September 1979, the Traditional Council adjudged the Asenie family as the
rightful owners of the said stool and ordered the 1st Respondent to hand over
all the stool regalia and stool property to the plaintiffs’ Asenie family. <o:p></o:p>However,
the Respondent had refused to take part in the hearing before the Traditional
Council, and upon becoming aware of the judgment, obtained an order of
certiorari from the High Court Koforidua on 5th November 1980 to quash it.
Thereupon the appellants also appealed the High Court Ruling to the Court of
Appeal. The Court of Appeal in its unreported judgment - Civil Appeal No. 15/81
dated 14th December 1989 and titled The Republic vs. The Judicial Committee of
Akim Kotoku Traditional Council; Ex-Parte Baffour Yamoah Ponkor, Odikro of
Ntronang to be found at pages 165 to 175 of the Record held the trial judge to
have been in error and allowed the appeal. It set aside the order quashing the
judgment of the Traditional Council and endorsed the decision of the
Traditional Council. <o:p></o:p>The
judgment of the Traditional Council which is at pages 4 and 5 of the Record may
be summed up as follows: <o:p></o:p>a)
A declaration that the Aduana Family is not by custom the owners of Ntronang
Stool <o:p></o:p>b)
A declaration that the Aduana Clan is from the paternal lineage of Asenie Clan.
<o:p></o:p>c)
A declaration that members of the Asenie Clan are by custom the owners of the
Ntronang Stool whose descent is traced from Adu Gyamfi and the late Yamoah
Ponkor <o:p></o:p>d)
The Committee further ordered the 1st Respondent (defendant) to hand over all
Stool regalia including the Black Stool together with all Stool property to the
Plaintiff/Applicant <o:p></o:p>Alleg</main>