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KOFI ACKON & FAMILIES
V.
KOFI KOTOH & OTHERS

(1922) JELR 81893 (DC)

Divisional Court 6 Mar 1922 Ghana
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Judges:SIR PHILIP CRAMPTON SMYLY, C. J. BEATTY AND HALL, J.J.
Counsel:G. H. Savage, for the appellants (defendants). Hon. E. J. P. Brown, for the respondents (plaintiffs)
Other Citations:1922 Full Courts 9-13

JUDGMENT

SMYLY, C.J.

This appeal commenced in the native tribunal of Elmina in the Central Province. It was intituled “ Kofi Ackon and families v. Kofi Kotoh and others," and in it the plaintiffs claimed as successors of old Kobina Acquanda to establish their right title and interest in all that “piece or parcel of land commonly known as Acquanda-land the property of old Kobina Acquanda, and bounded on the north by Kofi Bedu's land, on the south by Beach road, and east by Emisang s land, and on the west by Amba Aminsah."The native tribunal gave judgment to the plaintiff for the land as a bona-fide property of old Acquanda ; against this decision the defendants Kofi Kotoh, Kweku Nankom and Mensah Mpimpon appealed to the court of the Provincial Commissioner, who upheld the judgment of the native tribunal. From this judgment, the defendants Kofi Kotoh and Mensah Mpimpon have appealed to the Full Court, their co-defendant Kweku Nankom having died before the appeal was heard by the Provincia…

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