TAWIAH V. ATTAFA

KORANTENG-ADDOW J.: The plaintiff in this case brought an action against the defendant in the District Magistrate Court Grade II at Dompim, claiming as follows:

“Plaintiff claims from the defendant the sum of ¢174.63 to wit: (a) ¢120.00 being damages for establishing unlawful claim to a land known and called ‘Abatafuo’ and deprived the plaintiff from farming for livelihood of himself and family; and (b) Defendant to refund the amount of expenses of ¢54.63 incurred by plaintiff through his (defendant’s) unlawful action.”

He elaborated on this in his evidence in court in the following terms:

“. . . The defendant . . . took action against me in an arbitration at Dompim No. 1. When the matter was decided at the arbitration the arbitrators gave judgment against me . . . Defendant has since then about three (3) years ago failed to give me notice to quit from the land and as such I find defendant is not the owner of the land but only threatened and took this action against me and put me into de…