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KODWO NKOOM V. KWAMIN ETSIAKU

(1922) JELR 81898

Unspecified  •  6 Mar 1922  •  Ghana

Coram
SIR PHILIP CRAMPTON SMYLY, C. J. BEATTY J. AND HALL, J.

Appearances
A. J. E. Bucknor, For the Appellant. K. A. Korsah, For the Respondent.

Judgement
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>SMYLY, C.J</strong>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In this appeal the plaintiff-appellant relies on seven grounds of appeal which I propose to take in order. Ground (1), judgment imperfect in that it leaves undecided portion of the claim of plaintiff-appellant for demarcation of boundaries as set forth on the writ of summons in the cause.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The charge before the native tribunal of Essikumah, which I gather this ground of appeal refers to reads :-</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“Plaintiff claims on behalf of himself and the members of his family £25 damages for trespass “committed by the defendant on plaintiff&#x27;s family land, the defendant having gone over the boundaries “of the portion of land occupied by Kweku Attah, plaintiff&#x27;s ancestors according to the judgment of “the Divisional Court, Cape Coast, in the case Krooji v. Kweku Attah delivered on the first of October, 1887, and for a demarcation of boundaries between “plaintiff&#x27;s land and defendant&#x27;s land.&quot;-(p. I, Appeal Record.) .</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">The judgment in the case referred to in the above charge reads:-</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“I find the l…</p></blockquote>

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