NANA NYAMEKEH BOADI II AND ABUSUA KPANYINLI ASUAH EKEYEBOE vs. MARK JACKSON WESTERN REGION HOUSE OF CHIEFS [2013]DLCA8114

NANA NYAMEKEH BOADI II AND ABUSUA KPANYINLI ASUAH EKEYEBOE vs. MARK JACKSON WEST... [2013]DLCA8114

Date	2013-10-31
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. HI/17/2012
Citation No.	[2013]DLCA8114

C. J. HONYENUGA J.A. (PRESIDING)

D. D. ADJEI J.A.

B. F. ACKAH-YENSU (MS) J.A.

MR. SUMAILA AMADU MBACHE FOR THE PLT/RESPONDENTS

MR. JOHN MERCER LED BY EBOW DAWSON FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT

[2013]DLCA8114
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >NANA NYAMEKEH
BOADI II AND ABUSUA KPANYINLI ASUAH EKEYEBOE<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MARK JACKSON<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>WESTERN REGION HOUSE OF CHIEFS<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL,
CAPE COAST]<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; HI/17/2012&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 31ST
OCTOBER, 2013<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR.
SUMAILA AMADU MBACHE FOR THE PLT/RESPONDENTS<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MR.
JOHN MERCER LED BY EBOW DAWSON FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT<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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C.
J. HONYENUGA J.A. (PRESIDING), D. D. ADJEI J.A., B. F. ACKAH-YENSU (MS) J.A.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>HONYENUGA,
J.A.<o:p></o:p>This
is an appeal by the 1st defendant/appellant against the decision of
the High Court, Sekondi dated the 25th day of July 2011.&nbsp; The said decision dismissed the 1st
defendant/appellant’s application to strike out the plaintiffs/respondents’
action on the grounds that it disclosed no reasonable cause of action and for a
further order dismissing the action.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
facts of this appeal is that the 1st defendant/appellant was
installed as the Paramount Chief of Eastern Nzema under the stool name of
Amihere Kpanyinli III.&nbsp; The plaintiffs/respondents
who are the Chief of Awiaso, an elder of the Nvavile stool and head of the
Royal Nvavile Clan of Awiaso all in the Eastern Nzema respectively insist that
no ancestor from the 1st defendant/appellant’s family ever bore the
stool name that the 1st defendant/appellant had assumed.&nbsp; The plaintiffs/respondents also insist that
that stool name is peculiar or akin to only their royal stool family and if the
1st defendant is be allowed to use same, it would create chaos since
they are all from Eastern Nzema.&nbsp; Failure
by the 1st defendant/appellant to stop using the said stool name compelled
the plaintiffs/respondents to issue out a writ of summons claiming as follows:-<o:p></o:p>“i.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order for a declaration that Amihere
Kpanyinli the founder of Nzemaland was necessarily an Nvavile and thus the name
cannot lawfully be borrowed, appropriated, copied, adopted or assumed by a
non-Nvavile Royal.<o:p></o:p>ii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order for a declaration that the 1st
defendant has never had any two earlier occupants on his Ngweafo (Aduana) Stool
by the name Amihere Kpanyinli and can therefore not claim to be Amihere
Kpanyinli III as same would connote fraud and deception.<o:p></o:p>iii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order compelling the 1st
defendant to drop the disputed name.<o:p></o:p>iv.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order directed at the 2nd
defendant to restrain it from registering or recognizing the 1st
defendant unless he has dropped the said name.<o:p></o:p>v.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Perpetual injunction to restrain the 1st
defendant and his successors in title, privies, trustees and all deriving title
through him from annexing, taking or going by the stool name Amihere Kpanyinli.<o:p></o:p>vi.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order for a declaration that it is
against customary law for a chief to assume a name that is unrelated to its own
family but wrongfully taken from a rival family stool.<o:p></o:p>vii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Damages for trespass.<o:p></o:p>viii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cost of this suit”.<o:p></o:p>