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KOTEY
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ASARE

(1962) JELR 83692 (HC)

High Court 1 May 1962 Ghana
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- The court held that in disputes over land ownership among the three James Town stools (Alata, Sempe, Akumadjey), exclusive or predominant occupation by subjects or grantees of a particular stool must be proven to establish exclusive title

Case Details

Judges:OLLENNU J.
Counsel:S. M. Codjoe for the plaintiff. G. D. Ampaw for the defendant.
Location:Accra
Other Citations:[1962] 1 GLR 312 - 316

JUDGMENT

OLLENNU J.

The plaintiff claims declaration of title, an order for injunction and special damages, the sum of £G150, for trespass in respect of a piece of land described in her writ of summons. The land is situate at west Korle Gonno, and is part of a large area of land called Lartebiorkorshie. There is no dispute that the said land is within the James Town traditional area formerly known as James Town Division of the Ga State. The plaintiff relies upon a grant of that land by the Alata stool of James Town to one Charles Nii Aku Danso as her root of title.

The defendant disputes the claim of the plaintiff; he claims title from the Sempe stool also of James Town, through one Madam Adorkor, a grantee of the Sempe stool. He contends that he was in possession of an area of land comprising the land in dispute, exercising full acts of ownership thereof at the date when the plaintiff entered upon the land and started to construct a temporary iron sheets structure on a portion of the l…

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