JUDGMENT
ANSAH, JSC
This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal (Civil Division), Cape Coast, dated 27th June 2017, coram: C J Honyenuga, (presiding): Alhaji Saeed Kwaku Gyan and G. S. Suurbareh JJA. The first Plaintiff-Respondent hereinafter called the respondent, is the occupant of the Apowa Stool and the second, the head of the Asamankama Stool Family of Apowa; the defendant is the appellant herein. The land in dispute called Sankoba, measured about 559.17 acres, and was acquired by J.F. Scheck at an auction in 1896, for farming purposes. Subsequently, J.F. Scheck and his successors held title to the land and had exclusive possession without any let or hindrance from anybody. All those who farmed the land did so with the permission of Scheck’s successors. However, in recent times the defendant appellant and his predecessors in title granted a greater part of the land to people for residential and commercial purposes. The defendant appellant asserted that all litigat…