MANUKURE V. AGYEKUM AND OTHERS

BROBBEY JA. This is an appeal against the decision of Williams J sitting in the Koforidua High Court. The appeal followed a decision of the trial judge in which he awarded judgment for the respondents.

The original trial itself centred around a rather narrow issue concerning title to a portion of land which formed part of the Adasewase stool lands.

The undisputed facts of the case were the following: The land in dispute formerly belonged to the Adasewase stool. The predecessors of the appellant bought a large part in 1922 and occupied it for nearly forty years from 1923. In 1963 the respondents entered the portion of lands which the appellant claimed to have bought. The appellant consequently issued a writ against the respondents in the Koforidua High Court.

At the trial the respondents conceded that the appellant’s predecessors bought some portions of the Adasewase stool lands. They however contended that the portion sold to them was much less than the lands actually claimed by those pr…