POBEE
V.
ARHIN AND ANOTHER

(1964) JELR 67831 (SC)

Supreme Court 27 Jan 1964 Ghana
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- Plaintiff (appellant) claimed to be head of the heritable blood of Chief Kweku Arhin I (Twidan family, Cape Coast) and sought to set aside a 1956 sale of land by the first defendant to the fourth defendant, contending the land was self-ac

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Judges:SARKODEE-ADOO JSC,OLLENNU JSC,BLAY J.S.C.
Counsel:H. DARKOH FOR THE APPELLANT; B.J. DA ROCHA FOR THE RESPONDENT.

BLAY J.S.C.: This is an appeal from the judgment of the Land Court, Cape Coast, presided over by S. A. Attoh, Esquire, Commissioner of Assize and Civil Pleas, as he then was, whereby he dismissed the plaintiff’s claim to have set aside the sale of a piece of land to the fourth defendant by the first defendant.

The plaintiff, now appellant, claimed that he is the head of the heritable blood of chief Kweku Arhin I, Twidan family of Cape Coast. He alleges that the piece of land sold by the first defendant (now respondent) to the fourth defendant, was the self-acquired property of late chief Kweku Arhin I and that as the said chief died intestate the land became the family property of the heritable blood members of his family. The said land had been sold by the first appellant to the fourth defendant (now second appellant) without the knowledge and consent of the plaintiff or any of the immediate heritable blood members of chief Kweku Arhin I, by a deed of conveyance dated 27 October 1956…

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