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EBBAH KWESI AMOO
V.
AMUSAN KOFIE

(1922) JELR 83822 (DC)

Divisional Court 10 Apr 1922 Ghana
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Judges:SIR PHILIP CRAMPTON SMYLY, C. J. LOGAN HALL, J.J.
Counsel:F. A. Williams, W. E. G. Sekyi with him, for the appellant (defendant). G. J. Christian, for the respondent (plaintiff).
Other Citations:1922 Full Courts 63-67

LOGAN, J.

The plaintiff Ebbah Kwesi Amoo brought an action against the defendant appellant in the native tribunal of Attuaboe, claiming to be the rightful owner of the land known as Brigan. The native tribunal gave judgment for the plaintiff, finding that the defendant's ancestors and the plaintiff's ancestors were relations, and that the plaintiff's ancestors gave the defendant's ancestors a piece of land for ploughing.

The defendant appealed to the court of the Provincial Commissioner, and asked for a rehearing. His grounds of appeal are stated under three headings but they all come to the same thing, viz. :---that the record of the proceedings in the native tribunal had been fraudulently altered by some person. No other objection was taken to the proceedings. The Provincial Commissioner gave leave to appeal, and reheard the case after first visiting the land in dispute in the presence of the parties.

The Provincial Commissioner upheld the decision of the , native tribunal; he found th…

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