ADUMUA-BOSSMAN J: From the foregoing summary of the evidence of the parties, it will be noted that the plaintiff’s complaint against the defendant was that in the first place the said defendant appropriated the piece of forest land in front of his cocoa farm which Kwadjo Pong trespassed on and which he the defendant himself had claimed from Kwadjo Pong for him. That when thereafter he (the plaintiff) had caused some Accra labourers to cultivate the remaining adjoining forest in front of his cocoa farm and planted rice in it and thereby extended his (plaintiff’s) cultivation up to the limit of that rice farm, the defendant by his labourer Atta Paning cultivated the forest land immediately in front of his (plaintiff’s’) cultivation thereby barring or precluding him from further expansion.
The defendant’s defence would seem to be summarised in his answers to the court hereinbefore already set out in which he alleged that he commenced his cultivation 200ft from the rice farm in front of pl…