OMANHENE OF SEFWI-WIAWSO V. DONKOR

KORANTENG-ADDOW J.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Sefwi-Wiawso Local Court presided over by K. Adu Poku, Esquire, local court magistrate delivered on 28 September 1964. By his writ, the plaintiff, the Omanhene of the Sefwi-Wiawso Traditional Area, claimed as follows:

“Plaintiff claims judicial relief of the honourable court why the defendant has failed to account for one-third share of a cocoa farm left by the late Mr Laaw which farm is now in charge of the defendant and situate and lying at a place commonly known as Kwakwa within Supeano locality and within the Sefwi-Wiawso Traditional Area by virtue of customary law and usage.”

As appearing from the title of the case the Omanhene sued through one J. A. Koufie, the secretary of the traditional council.

The brief facts of the case are that the father of the defendant obtained a parcel of land from the Sefwi-Wiawso paramount stool for the purpose of farming some twenty years previous to the institution of this action. The said …