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ABBA WURAPAH AND EFFUAH AMISSAH
V.
THE COMMONWEALTH TRUST LIMITED, AND OTHERS

JELR 83088

Unspecified Ghana
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- Plaintiffs, representing the Abiradzie family, claimed title to land at Poassi Road, Dutch Seccondee, seeking damages for trespass and a mandatory injunction to remove structures. - Defendants asserted plaintiffs were never owners; argued

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Judges:SIR PHILIP CRAMPTON SMYLY, C. J. LOGAN HALL, J.J.
Counsel:C. E. M. Abbensetts, R. J. Hayfron, and W. E. G. Sekyi for the appellants (plaintiffs). C. C. Carter, for the respondents (defendants).
Other Citations:1922 Full Courts 80-90

SMYLY, C.J.

In this case the plaintiffs' claim would appear to be for £800 damages for trespass committed on plaintiffs land situate at Main Street, Poassi road, Dutch Seccondee by the defendants, their agents, servants, contractors, and workmen, entering the said lands, breaking up the soil, and erecting certain structures and buildings thereon, and for a mandatory injunction compelling the defendants, their servants, contractors, and workmen to pull down and remove from such land the said structures and buildings thereon erected. The plaintiffs claim as representing the Abrahiam Abiradzie family of Seccondee.

In their statement of claim the plaintiffs alleged that the plaintiffs' family was and is absolute owner and occupier of a piece or parcel of land situate at Poassi road, Dutch Seccondee, of which the plot or site the subject matter of this action forms part.

In their statement of defence the defendants alleged (I), that the plaintiffs' are not and never have been the owners of th…

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