NANA SARFO KANTANKA AND PAUL OPPONG vs. TAKYI MENSAH AND DIANA NYAMEKYE [2022]DLCA15149

Date	2022-07-28
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. H1/32/2022
Citation No.	[2022]DLCA15149

ANGELINA M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) JA. (PRESIDING)

A. B. POKU-ACHEAMPONG JA.

SAMUEL K.A. ASIEDU JA.

Samuel Ayeh Agyei for Plaintiffs/Appellants

Eunice Mensah for Defendants/Respondents

[2022]DLCA15149
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >NANA SARFO KANTANKA AND PAUL OPPONG<span style="font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#00B0F0"><o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>TAKYI MENSAH AND DIANA NYAMEKYE<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL,
KUMASI]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">

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APPEAL NO. H1/32/2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>Samuel
Ayeh Agyei for Plaintiffs/Appellants<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">

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Mensah for Defendants/Respondents<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>ANGELINA
M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) JA. (PRESIDING), A. B. POKU-ACHEAMPONG JA., SAMUEL K.A.
ASIEDU JA.<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0in;">

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</div>ASIEDU,
JA.<o:p></o:p>This appeal is against the judgment of
the High Court, Kumasi delivered on the 3rd day of July 2020. A writ
of summons with an accompanying statement of claim was, on the 23rd
May 2013, issued by the Plaintiffs/Appellants against the
Defendants/Respondents. In the said writ, the 1st Plaintiff, suing
as the head of family for himself and the Oyoko family of Wiamoase, Ashanti
together with the 2nd Plaintiff, claim against the Defendants as
administrators of the estate of Akwasi Takyi (deceased), jointly and severally,
the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>(i)<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Declaration that House No. Plot 1
Block 1 New Tafo (Krofrom), which was formerly numbered Plot 24 VI New Tafo,
Kumasi, is the property of the Oyoko family of Wiamoase, and not the personal
property of the late Kwasi Takyi, a member of the Oyoko family aforesaid.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(ii)<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Declaration that a farmland at a place
known and called Akwadwoa at Wiamoase on the Wiamoase stool land is the
property of the Oyoko family of Wiamoase.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<a name="_Hlk108462032">(iii)<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Declaration that a cocoa farm at
Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana sharing boundaries with the properties of
the following people: Opanin Kwame Tawia, Opanin Fobri, Madam Gyamfuwaa and
Madam Afua Serwaa (widow of the late Akwasi Takyi) is the property of the Oyoko
family of Wiamoase.<o:p></o:p></a>(iv)<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&n</main>