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ATTAH
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AIDOO & ORS

(1968) JELR 82432 (HC)

High Court 4 Apr 1968 Ghana
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- Plaintiff, as customary successor to Kobina Gurah, sought a declaration of title, recovery of six cocoa farms, setting aside of alienations, damages for trespass, and mesne profits, alleging the first defendant unlawfully pledged and the

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Judges:ARCHER J.
Counsel:Okyere Darko For the Plaintiff. I. Abban For the Second, Third and Fourth Defendants.
Other Citations:[1968] GLR 362

ARCHER J.

The plaintiff, as customary successor of his late uncle Kobina Gurah, on behalf of himself and the family of the late Gurah, claims a declaration of title to and recovery of six farms, described in the statement of claim, from the four defendants, which said properties were unlawfully pledged by the first defendant Kobina Aidoo to the third defendant Alagbade and the fourth defendant Anaman, and later were unlawfully sold at the instance of the third defendant by the second defendant Minnow as auctioneer to the fourth defendant. The plaintiff seeks also an order setting aside the said sale. He also claims £G10,000 damages for trespass and an account of the defendants' occupation of the said cocoa farms and for mesne profits. The plaintiff’s story is that his late uncle Gurah obtained land at Kwanyaku and Dunkwa and cultivated the land into cocoa farms. On his death, Gurah was succeeded by the first defendant, Kobina Aidoo as customary successor who took over the properties o…

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