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NANA ENUMIL KUMAH IV AND OTHERS
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NANA APPIAH NTI II AND OTHERS

(2013) JELR 65846 (CA)

Court of Appeal 18 Apr 2013 Ghana
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- This is an appeal by the Plaintiffs/Appellants against the judgment of the High Court, which dismissed their action and entered judgment for the Defendants/Respondents. - The appeal is a consolidated one with 4 suits involving the same pa

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Suit Number:CIVIL APPEAL NO. H1/39/2012
Judges:HONYENUGA JA PRESIDING,ADJEI JA ,ACKAH -YENSU JA.
Counsel:FRIMPONG BOADU ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFFS/APPELLANTS,SAGARI NOKOU ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS

JUDGMENT

HONYENUGA,J.A:

This is an appeal by the Plaintiffs/Appellants hereinafter called the Appellants against the judgment of the High Court; Tarkwa dated the 13th day of July, 2009 and the 20th day of April, 2010 respectively. The said Court dismissed the action of the Appellants and entered judgment for the Defendants/Respondents with no order as to costs. The Defendants/Respondents would hereinafter be called the Respondents.

Before I proceed, I must state that this appeal is a consolidated one with 4 suits listed as Suit Numbers E1/10/08, E1/11/08, E1/12/08 and E1/13/08 involving the same parties and the same subject matter which is land.

The facts of this appeal are that the Appellants claiming to be the owners of the land in dispute have exercised overt acts of ownership by cultivating permanent crops thereon. The Appellants also claim that they have been in uninterrupted possession for many years until the 1st to 3rd Respondents demarcated the land and claimed it as theirs. The …

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