<p>ASARE KORANG J.A.:</p><p>This is an appeal against the judgment of the Circuit Court, Tarkwa dated 24th February, 1997 wherein the learned Circuit judge entered judgment in favour of the plaintiff/respondent [hereinafter described as the Respondent], on his claim and dismissed the counterclaim of the Defendant/Appellant [hereinafter called the Appellant].</p><p>In the court below, the respondent sued for himself and the children of the late Henry Francis Burns-Blisseth for a declaration of ownership of House No. MS1 situate on main street Tarkwa, possession thereof and perpetual injunction.</p><p>In her Statement of Defence, the appellant counterclaimed against the Respondent for a declaration that the house in dispute is family property belonging to the Appellant&#x27;s family.</p><p>In his statement of claim as amended, the Respondent averred that his grandfather was one Francis Burns-Blissett, a Sierra Leonean national who came to the then Gold Coast, now Ghana and worked with the Gold Coast Railway Corporation.</p><p>Th…</p>