AKUFO-ADDO J.S.C.
The respondent (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff) brought an action in the High Court, Accra, against the appellant (hereinafter referred to as the defendant) claiming a declaration of ownership of a piece of land situate at Opete Kpakpo (Abossey Okai), Accra, the ownership of which she claimed to have acquired by a deed of conveyance dated the 10th August, 1956, and executed in her favour by the Akumajay stool of Accra represented by Nii Ayikai III, the Mantse of Akumajay. She also claimed damages for trespass and recovery of possession. The description of the land as contained in the deed of conveyance was set out in the plaintiff's statement of claim.
The plaintiff's case was that the deed of conveyance was executed after the elders of the Akumajay stool and one Blankson, a surveyor to the stool, had gone on to the land with her and demarcated two plots of land for her, and that the two plots of land were then unoccupied. Upon the execution of the deed of co…