HAMMOND
V.
ODOI AND ANOTHER

(1982) JELR 66553 (SC)

Supreme Court 20 Dec 1982 Ghana
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- The dispute concerned rival claims to title over a parcel of land at Kotobabi, Accra, where both plaintiff and defendants traced their original grants to the Nii We family, a sub-group under the Osu stool, with subsequent "confirmatory" g

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Judges:ARCHER JSC,ANIN JSC,CHARLES CRABBE JSC,ADADE JSC,TAYLOR J.S.C.
Counsel:DR. SETH TWUM (WITH HIM E. K. MENSAH) FOR THE APPELLANT; PETER ALA ADJETEY FOR THE RESPONDENTS.
Other Citations:[1982-83] GLR 1215

ARCHER J.S.C.: This appeal has been brought with leave granted by the Court of Appeal in July 1972. In granting leave, the Court of Appeal (see Hammond v. Odoi [1972] 2 G.L.R. 459, C.A.) took the view that the substantial questions of law raised were so involved with other issues of fact and mixed law and fact that the leave granted should apply to all the three grounds to enable the Supreme Court to do full justice to the case.

With great deference to the court below, I wish to say that I do not find any complexities in this case, for it seems to me that this case should be disposed of by applying strictly, the conveyancing laws of this country and no more and I intend to adopt that attitude.

In March 1958, the Land Court at Accra found that:

(a) The Maamobi-Kotobabi-Dzorwulu lands are part of the Osu village or rural lands under the care and control of the head of the Ashanti Blohum quarter, namely the Mankralo.

(b) The Mankralo of Osu, head of the Ashanti Blohum quarter is the sole aut…

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