OSEI-HWERE J.A.: The legal battle which was fought in the court below was essentially between the plaintiff-appellant (hereinafter to be designated as the plaintiff). And the co-defendant-respondent (also to be designated as the co-defendant). Although the defendant-respondent (to be referred to as the defendant) was initially drawn into the contest he faded out after he had filed his defence.
By his writ of summons the plaintiff sued the defendant and claimed against him certain reliefs ranging from a declaration of title, through recovery of ¢449 as arrears of rent and up to perpetual injunction. It was averred by the plaintiff in his statement of claim that he acquired a parcel of land by customary grant in 1963 for the Osu stool then occupied by Nii Dowuona v. and that in 1967 he obtained a formal deed of conveyance evidencing the coustomary grants from the said stool. The conveyance was duly stamped and registered in the Deeds Registry as No. 147/1974 on 23 January 1974. In 1964 …