DORA BOATENG
V.
MACKEOWN INVESTMENT

AMEGATCHER, JSC

The events leading to this appeal which has ended up at the apex court started its journey from the Circuit Court, Koforidua. Being a civil case, its upward movement was routed on appeal to the Court of Appeal. The parties wishing to take full advantage of all the legal avenues open to them did not end the journey at the intermediate appellate court. The fight continued by invoking our appellate jurisdiction as the final court in the land, hopefully to give this land dispute its quietus. One gentleman called Kwame Kissiedu Kwaasi is at the centre of this land dispute. The actual role the said Kwame Kissiedu Kwaasi played and his legal capacity will be a determinant factor in this appeal.

For Dora Boateng, the plaintiff, the facts of her case from the record reveal that she bought a 20 acre plot of land situate at Okorase near Koforidua from Kwame Kissiedu Kwaasi, who described himself as the Head of Family and lawful representative of the Kissiedu Kwaasi Family of a sect…