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KWARTENG AND OTHERS
V.
AGYARKO AND OTHERS

(1968) JELR 85432 (HC)

High Court 22 Mar 1968 Ghana
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- Plaintiffs, owners of land at Jadeso acquired by purchase from the Pankese stool in 1925, granted portions to defendants under an abusa (later varied to abunu) customary tenancy memorialized by a written agreement dated 18 May 1954 (exhib

Case Details

Judges:KINGSLEY-NYINAH J.
Counsel:D. K. Osei for the plaintiffs. A. Puplampu for the defendants.
Location:Accra
Other Citations:[1968] GLR 292 - 310

JUDGEMENT

Kingsley-Nyinah J.

By consent of both counsel and parties herein, this particular suit No. L.202/63 was taken as a test case in place of each and all of the others: namely, suit Nos. L.203/63 and L.204/63. And the second plaintiff herein, again by consent, stood in for the plaintiffs in the other causes. The same went for the defendants Kwabena Agyarko, Kwadwo Kwampa and J. K. Duah, the first of whom, by agreement and consent, stood in as defendant for and on behalf of the others in the other suits.

This was an action whereby the plaintiffs, (upon whose parcels of land the defendants had lived and farmed since 18 May 1954) claimed from and against the defendants, as per the writ of summons filed herein:

(i) Declaration of title.

(ii) The sums of £G486 0s. 0d.(suit No. L.202/63) and £G243 0s. 0d. (suit No. L.203/63) and £G592 0s. 0d. (suit No. L.203/63)—all totalling £G1,321 0s. 0d. And representing "half shares of cocoa proceeds plucked from the said land by the defendants" and d…

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