JUDGMENT
Quashie-Sam J.
This is an appeal from the judgment of the District Court Grade II, Odumase, dated 29 June 1973 in which the appellant lost to the respondents. The claim was for:
(a) declaration of title to land at Ofuase-Korlenya, fully described in the writ of summons, and
(b) ¢100.00 damages for trespass.
Briefly the case of the appellant was that he acquired ownership of the land in dispute by inheritance from his predecessors whose names he mentioned in his evidence: that he so inherited the land about 37 years ago during which time he has been farming the land with members of his family; that for a period of four years he was in Upper Krobo and returned only to find that the respondents had been clearing the land for farming and fixing boundaries; that the matter was by the police referred to one chief Baah for a settlement to which he refused to submit himself and he thus brought this action.
Briefly the first respondent's case was that when he grew up his father and one …