APALOO J.A.
This appeal is from the judgment of Ollennu J. (as he then was) delivered in the High Court, Accra, on 30 March 1962, reported in [1962] 1 G.L.R. 200. That judgment dismissed two claims brought by the appellant’s family against two individuals to recover two separate pieces of land claimed to belong to the appellant’s family at Ningo. The actions were consolidated and were numbered at 145/60 and 8/61 respectively.
Although it is possible that there might have been differences between the families of the appellant and the respondents in the past, what appears to have triggered off the present litigation was the refusal of the respondents to give to the appellant’s family a cow. It was said by the appellant that an agreement was entered into between their respective predecessors in title by which the respondents’ predecessors agreed in consideration of being permitted to live and pasture cows on the lands in dispute to give one cow each to the appellant’s family. It was said t…