SOLOMON TACKIE & ANOR.
V.
JOHN NETTEY & ANOR
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DOTSE, JSC
PROLOGUE
What looked like an ordinary appeal where the intermediate Court of Appeal concurred in the findings of the trial High Court and which should have led to an evaluation of the grounds of appeal argued in the statements of case of the parties soon evaporated into thin air. This came about after deep and sober reflection on the unprecedented style of the manner in which learned counsel for the plaintiffs presented his arguments in support of the appeal. This style of presentation was considered to be an assault on, and a violent breach of, the settled rules of procedure of this court and the lower courts as well. This phenomenon therefore necessitated a thorough and comprehensive analysis of our opinion in this judgment.
The facts of this case admit of some controversies, and it might be very useful to set them out from the perspectives of the plaintiffs and the 1st Defendant. Thereafter, it will be necessary to refer to the various overt acts of ownership of …
