NANA ASUMADU II (DECEASED) AND NANA DANYI QUARM IV (DECEASED) vs. AGYA AMEYAW [2019]DLSC6295

Date	2019-05-15
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/01/2018
Citation No.	[2019]DLSC6295

YEBOAH JSC (PRESIDING)

BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC

GBADEGBE JSC

APPAU JSC

DORDZIE (MRS.) JSC

SIBIRI EDWARD KADRI FOR THE PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS

KWAKU ADDEAH-SAFO FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT

[2019]DLSC6295
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">NANA
ASUMADU II (DECEASED) (SUBSTITUTED BY NANA DARKU AMPEM (DECEASED) (SUBSTITUTED
BY EBUSUAPAYIN AMGO MENSAH) AND NANA DANYI QUARM IV (DECEASED) (SUBSTITUTED BY
SAMUEL EKOBO ACQUAYE<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS]<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.25in; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">vs.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.25in; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">AGYA AMEYAW<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.25in; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[DFENDANT/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT]<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 12pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[SUPREME COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0in;">CIVILAPPEALNO.J4/01/2018&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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&nbsp;MAY,
2019<o:p></o:p>

</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">SIBIRI EDWARD KADRI FOR THE
PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS.<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0in;">KWAKU
ADDEAH-SAFO FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0in;">YEBOAH JSC (PRESIDING), BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC,
GBADEGBE JSC, APPAU JSC, DORDZIE (MRS.) JSC<o:p></o:p>

</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">YAW
APPAU, JSC:-<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">This appeal hangs on a very thin legal thread. The issue involved
is so narrow that it should not have attracted the copious submissions made by
both counsel for the appellants and the respondent in their over eighty (80)
page statements of case filed on 15/05/2018 and 23/07/2018 respectively.
Perhaps, the parties were lured into charting this course because of the manner
in which the Court of Appeal dealt with the appeal before it.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">It is trite learning that an appeal is by way of re-hearing. The
rules of the Court of Appeal, 1997&nbsp;[C.I. 19]&nbsp;are very clear on
this. Rule 8 (1) of the said rules provides as follows:&nbsp;“An appeal
to the Court shall be by way of re-hearing and shall be brought by a notice of
appeal”.&nbsp;This principle that an appeal is by way of re-hearing
applies mutatis mutandis to this Court in the exercise of its appellate
function as it does to the Court of Appeal. There are numerous authoritative
judicial decisions of this Court on this as expressed in cases like&nbsp;AKUFO
ADDO v CAHTHELINE [1992] 1 GLR 377;&nbsp;TUAKWA v BOSOM [2001-2002]
SCGLR 61;&nbsp;BROWN v QUASHIGAH [2003-2004] SCGLR 930 ARYEH &amp;
AKAKPO v AYAA IDDRISU [2010] SCGLR 891&nbsp;and&nbsp;DJIN v MUSAH BAAKO
[2007-2008] SCGLR 686, to mention just a few.&nbsp;This Court held
in the&nbsp;Tuakwa v Bosom case&nbsp;(supra) that;&nbsp;“an appeal
is by way of re-hearing, particularly where the appellant alleges in his notice
of appeal that the decision of the trial court is against the weight of
evidence”.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The previous decision of this Court in the&nbsp;<i</main>