JUDMENT
This is an appeal from a decision of Akyem Abuakwa Court “ A." The decision was that of the majority of the court. The third member left "during the delivery with annoyance." On reading the record one can hardly be surprised.
The action is one by a "purchasing company" brought to resist the attempts of the local stool to drive them off land sold to them by the Odikro on the stool in 1920.
The trial court was compelled to accept the facts relied on by the plaintiffs but arrived at a perverse judgment in their determination to find for the local stool. I am not sure that the matter should not be sent back for a new trial with a recommendation that the case be transferred to an impartial court. However as I have said, the trial court were compelled to accept the main facts on which the plaintiffs rely.
These facts are that the plaintiffs under Kwame Ansah (now deceased) were sold land in 1920 by the Odikro of Nsutam; they paid the purchase price of £373 which was paid by installments…