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ANYETEY CHANTEY
V.
TEI KWABLAH KWEINOR

(2020) JELR 109738 (SC)

Supreme Court 20 May 2020 Ghana
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- The dispute centered on title to a tract of land (“Terkpenya”/“Kpodor”) in Ningo, with both plaintiff/respondent and defendant/appellant claiming ownership through ancestral lineage and asserting the other as a licensee. - The trial High

Case Details

Suit Number:J4/25/2019
Judges:DOTSE, JSC (PRESIDING) APPAU, JSC PWAMANG, JSC DORDZIE (MRS), JSC OWUSU (MS), JSC
Counsel:K. ANTWI ABANKWA FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT. ABU JUAN JAGIARA FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT

APPAU, JSC:- 

The Court of Appeal, in a unanimous decision, affirmed the judgment of the trial High  Court in favour of the plaintiff/respondent/respondent against the  defendant/appellant/appellant in this land matter. In the said judgment, the trial High  Court dismissed appellant’s counter-claim, which was also affirmed by the Court of  Appeal. Aggrieved by the concurrent judgment of the Court of Appeal, the  defendant/appellant/appellant has brought this appeal before us, praying for the reversal  of same on the following grounds:

1. The Court of Appeal erred in coming to a conclusion that the identity,  extent and size of the land, the subject-matter, was not in issue as same  was one of agreed fact. 

2. The Court erred by holding that Exhibit ‘B’, which is the judgment in the  case of AMEODA v. PORDIER and AMEODA v. FORZI and Ors [1967] GLR  479; C.A., is binding on the defendant and operated as Estoppel per rem  judicatam. 

3. The Judgment was against the weight of evidence. 

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