YAW SORO
V.
JULIANA FRANS
WOOD (MRS), J.
On the 20th of July 1989, the Plaintiff/Appellant/Appellant instituted proceedings against the Defendant/Respondent/Respondent in the Kumasi High Court for, a number of reliefs including,
(a) a declaration that property No. 10, Block X has been sold on conditional basis to him,
(b) an order compelling her to execute an assignment in respect of the property in his favour and
(c) an order of perpetual injunction restraining her and all persons claiming through her from laying any claim or exercising any exclusive rights over the said property.
This case, like many civil disputes in our jurisdiction, has had a rather chequered past. In the course of the trial, the respondent lost his counsel. Other major setbacks suffered include; a four- time change of solicitors, several adjournments before the two different judges who had handled it at one time or the other, and a seven year lull in the proceedings during which period it lay fallow in the registry.
Seven years after summo…