RICKETTS & ANOR V. ADDO & ORS & RICKETTS V. BORBOR AND ORS (CONSOLIDATED)

AMISSAH J.A.

The appellant in these consolidated cases, Samuel George Ricketts, complains of a judgment of Griffiths-Randolph J. by which declarations of title were made, and damages awarded and injunctions granted in favour of the respondents who were plaintiffs in these two consolidated cases. For convenience I shall hereafter use the titles of the plaintiffs and the defendants which the parties had at the trial. The land in dispute is part of a larger area known as Hemang lands. And there is no question about the fact that originally these lands were owned by two persons: Francis Wood and Joseph Ellis. Their title was that of tenants in common. By the time that the plaintiffs came to acquire their alleged interest in the land both Wood and Ellis had long been dead and the land had devolved on their respective families. Originally the plaintiffs had brought their actions against one J. Otoo Ellis, a son of the original Ellis who it was alleged had instigated and encouraged the tresp…