[2022]DLSC16140 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center; line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">NANA OTUO ANTWI BOASIAKO <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center; line-height:normal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-ansi-language: EN-US">(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center; line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center; line-height:normal"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0">NANA ADJEI PANIN <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center; line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> (DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT) <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[SUPREME COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></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: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/41/2021 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">DATE: 14<sup>TH</sup> DECEMBER 2022</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height: normal;tab-stops:286.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">COUNSEL</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height: normal;tab-stops:82.3pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">YAW D. OPPONG ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/APPELLANT. <o:p></o:p></span></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: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height: normal;tab-stops:82.3pt;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-ansi-language: EN-US">MATTHEW APPIAH ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height: normal;tab-stops:82.3pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">CORAM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height: normal;tab-stops:82.3pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">DOTSE JSC (PRESIDING), AMEGATCHER JSC, TORKORNOO (MRS.) JSC, PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC, KULENDI JSC </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua""> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center; line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center; line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">TORKORNOO (MRS.) JSC:-<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">In 1927, almost one hundred years ago, the ancestors of the parties to the appeal herein met before the Native Tribunal of Kumasi in contest over the boundary between the Abonu (also spelt Abono and Abornu in various parts of the record of this suit) stool and the Deduako (also spelt Dediako) stool in the Ashanti region. In that 1927 law suit, the progenitor of the Plaintiff/Respondent/Appellant in the appeal before us (hereafter referred to as Plaintiff) was called Kofi Tumtuo and the progenitor of the current Defendant/Appellant/Respondent (Defendant) was Kwame Adjaye. The current parties have been in contest over the boundary between the Abonu stool and the Deduako since 2007, eighty years after their earlier boundary dispute started.<span style="color:red"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">History of current suit<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Plaintiff’s claims<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">In the writ issued on 25<sup>th</sup> April 2007, the plaintiff indorsed the following claims<o:p></o:p></span></p><ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="1" type="1"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; mso-hyphenate:none;text-autospace:ideograph-other"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">A declaration of title to and recovery of possession of all that piece or parcel of stool land known and called Abornu and bounded by the following town/villages Kuntunase, Deduako, Adwafo, Nyameani and Obo<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; mso-hyphenate:none;text-autospace:ideograph-other"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Damages for Trespass<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2; mso-hyphenate:none;text-autospace:ideograph-other"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Perpetual Injunction restraining the defendant, his relatives agents/servants from having any dealings with the Abornu land<o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">In the accompanying statement of claim, plaintiff averred in paragraphs 3 and 4 that his stool owned all that land bounded by the stool lands of Kuntanase (also spelt Kuntenase in the records), Deduako, Adwafo Nyameani and Obo and that the boundaries of Abonu and Deduako were marked by ‘<i>Atta-ne Atta, Tetrefu Obuokrukro, ntome, odum tree, paapa tree, onyina tree, ntome, a hill called bipokoko, onyina tree and Nyameani stream’</i> (hereafter referred to as the Atta ne Atta -Bipokoko- Nyameani boundary direction) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">After this, he went on to aver in paragraphs 9 to 11 that in the 1927 suit, the boundaries between their stool lands as shown by defendant’s ancestor begun from ‘<i>Tetrefo Yineban stream, cemetery, onyina tree, Abankransu and Akatasu junction, Abankransu source, bamboo plants and Kuman stream</i>’ (hereafter referred to as the Tetrefo-Yineban-Kuman boundary direction). It is these features shown by the Deduako stool that were accepted by the Native Tribunal in order for judgment to be given in favor of the defendant in 1927. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">According to plaintiff, since the 1927 judgment, the Abonu stool has remained on the right side of the said Tetrefo-Yineban-Kuman boundary direction whilst the Dediako stool has been on the left of these boundary features. Plaintiff went on to contend that the defendant had without any justification, demarcated portions of his st