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SUKA
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GLAVEE

(1991) JELR 68172 (HC)

High Court 11 Feb 1991 Ghana
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- This is an appeal against a judgment from the District Court Grade I, Keta. - The plaintiff took action against the defendant for enforcement of an arbitration award, damages for trespass, and an injunction. - The plaintiff claimed that t

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Judges:ACQUAH J.
Counsel:R. B. K. ABOAGYE FOR THE DEFENDANT-APPELLANT; G. K. MENSAH-ETSI FOR THE PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT.
Other Citations:[1991] 1 GLR 194

ACQUAH J.

This is an appeal against the judgment dated 26 July 1986, of his Worship Sampson Brako-Yeboah, sitting at the District Court Grade I, Keta. The plaintiff-respondent (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff) took this action at the said district court against the defendant-appellant (referred to hereafter as the defendant) for an enforcement of the arbitration award of one Regent Zonyirah, ¢50,000 general damages for trespass and perpetual injunction restraining the defendant, his workmen, servants, agents and privies from further trespass onto his land. The boundaries of the land in dispute were set out as:

“On the east by Chief Adator family land, on the west by Zeye family land, on the north by Zeye family land and on the south by Tsiame-Asarame motor road.”

The case of the plaintiff is that the said land was acquired through conquest by an ancestor of his family called Chief Bodua I, who named the place Asarame, i.e. war camp. On the death of Chief Bodua I, he was succeed…

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