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ABADWUM STOOL, EDUBIASE STOOL AND BENKUM & ADONTEN STOOLS V. AKROKERRI STOOL

(2017) JELR 63543 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/28/2016  •  31 May 2017  •  Ghana

Coram
AKUFFO (MS) JSC PRESIDING, YEBOAH JSC, BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC, BENIN JSC, PWAMANG JSC

Judgement

PWAMANG, JSC

Some centuries back, the predecessors of the peoples of Akrokerri, Abadwum, Tarkwa and Kwaman in present day Adansi area in the Ashanti Region settled next to one another on lands that were vacant at the time. It is most likely that with time the original settlers came to know their respective boundaries and respected them. However, it appears that with the passage of time, knowledge of their exact boundaries handed down through oral tradition faded and current versions of where their boundaries lie tended to conflict. That is how come from about 1950 these peoples have been disagreeing among themselves over their exact boundaries leading to the filing of a suit by the Akrokerri Stool against the Abadwum Stool in the Circuit Court, Obuasi in 1982. After the close of pleadings and summons for directions it became clear to the Circuit Court judge that in substance the case was a boundary dispute so he made an order transferring it to the Stool Lands Boundary Settlement Comm…

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