MUSSTAFA TETTEY ADDY AND 2 OTHERS
V.
ARMEEN KASSARDJIAN
BROBBEY, J.A:
This is an appeal from the decision of an Accra High Court in which judgment was given in favour of the plaintiff/respondent, hereinafter referred to as the respondent for short.
The facts that gave rise to the litigation were these; the respondent claimed that he acquired the land in dispute from Gomoa Nyanyanor in 1973 and registered it at the Lands Department as No. 1498/1977. After acquiring the land, he entered into possession by constructing chalets on portions of it. The defendant who shall hereafter be referred to as the first appellant claimed that he acquired the land in dispute from the chief of Kokrobite in or about 1974. He added that on enquiring from the Lands Department, he discovered that the land had been registered in the name of the Bortianor stool. He therefore repurchased the land from the Bortianor stool in order, as he put it in his statement of defense, to hedge his title. When the litigation started, Bortianor stool joined as co-defendant. That st…