Judgements

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 29TH JUNE, 1964 Before: MILLS-ODOI, OLLENNU AND AKAINYAH JJSC JUDGEMENT OF MILLS-ODOI JSC Mils-Odoi JSC delivered the judgment of the court. Shortly put, the facts are that the appellant is a Lebanese merchant who trades on his own in textile goods in Kumasi and lives in Kumasi. The respondents […]

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 22 JUNE 1964 Before: MILLS-ODOI, OLLENNU AND ACOLATSE JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the judgment of Adumua-Bossman J. (as he then was), given in the High Court, Accra, on 26 June 1961, which reversed a decision

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 22 JUNE 1964 Before: SARKODEE-ADOO CJ, OLLENNU AND ACOLATSE JJSC JUDGMENT OF ACOLATSE JSC This is an appeal from a judgment of Bannerman J. delivered at Kumasi on 23 February 1963, in favour of the plaintiff-respondent, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff. The proceedings began with a claim for

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 22 JUNE 1964 Before: MILLS-ODOI, OLLENNU AND ACOLATSE JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu JSC delivered the judgment of the court. The appellant, hereinafter called the plaintiff, father of one Herman Wilhelm Hesse, Jnr., deceased, sued on behalf of himself and other dependants of his said deceased son; he

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 22 JUNE 1964 Before: SARKODEE-ADOO CJ, MILLS-ODOI AND AKAINYAH JJSC JUDGMENT OF SARKODEE-ADDO CJ This appeal is in respect of a piece or parcel of land known and called Amanta. The respondent as the plaintiff in this case by his statement of claim pleaded thus: [His lordship here read

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, KUMASI Date: 12TH JUNE, 1964 Before: SOWAH J JUDGMENT OF SOWAH J The plaintiff on 9 January 1963 filled in a proposal form for the insurance of his goods in his wholesale warehouse on plot 7, South Zongo, Kumasi. The answers to the questions on the proposal form were clearly

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, KUMASI Date: 12 JUNE 1964 Before: SOWAH J JUDGMENT OF SOWAH J The plaintiff, a Lebanese businessman, was arrested at the frontier town of Paga by the Ghana Police while he was on his way back from Ouagadougou, Upper Volta to Tamale in Ghana and was taken to Navrongo Police

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 25TH MAY 1964 Before: SARKODEE-ADDO CJ, OLLENNU AND ACOLATSE JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu JSC delivered the judgment of the court. The respondent, commenced these proceedings at Kumasi, in the Land Division of the then Supreme Court, claiming (i) an order to set aside the sale of a

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 22 MAY 1964 Before: OLLENNU, APALOO AND AKAINYAH JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu JSC delivered the judgment of the court. On 1 May 1964, we allowed the appeal of the appellant against his conviction, quashed his conviction and the sentences passed upon him, and ordered him to be

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 22 MAY 1964 Before: OLLENNU, APALOO AND AKAINYAH JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu JSC delivered the ruling of the court. The appellant on 8 November 1963, pleaded guilty before the District Magistrate, Kumasi, to a charge of assault under section 84 of the Criminal Code, 1960,1 and was