JUDGMENT
ASIEDU, JSC:
[1.0]. INTRODUCTION
My lords, this is an appeal against the ruling of the Court of Appeal dated the 20th December, 2023, in which the Court of Appeal refused an application by the Defendant/Appellant/Appellant (hereinafter referred to as the Appellant) praying the Court to restore an appeal which had been dismissed by the Court on the 18th February, 2015. The Plaintiff/Respondent/Respondent shall hereinafter be referred to as the Respondent.
[2.0]. FACTS
My lords, the undisputed facts on record are that, by an amended writ of summons and accompanying statement of claim, the Respondent claimed against the Appellant before the High Court, Kumasi, reliefs in the following terms:
(a) All that cocoa and food crops farm at a place commonly known and called Anyinasuona near Ahenkro/Ashanti on Ahenkro/Ashanti stool land and bounded with the farms and or parcels of land of Kweku Owusu, Opanin Boamah and Opanin Bannor.
(b) All that cocoa farm and farmstead situate at a place comm…