Judgements

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 29 FEBRUARY 1964 Before: ADUMUA-BOSSMAN, OLLENNU AND BLAY JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu JSC delivered the judgment of the court. The appellant was convicted of murder by the High Court, Kumasi, upon the verdict of a jury. The victim of the offence was one Akua Nyarko a wife […]

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 29 FEBRUARY 1964 Before: ADUMUA-BOSSMAN AND MILLS-ODOI JJSC AND APALOO J JUDGMENT OF APALOO J This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Accra, dated 11 February 1963. That judgment awarded damages in favour of the plaintiff-respondent against the defendant-appellant as a result of injuries sustained

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 29 FEBRUARY 1964 Before: ADUMUA-BOSSMAN, OLLENNU AND BLAY JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu JSC delivered the judgment of the court. The appellant was convicted by the High Court, Sekondi, of the murder of his wife, one Afua Ampomah. The crime was committed in the village of Kramokrom on

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 29 FEBRUARY 1964 Before: ADUMUA-BOSSMAN, OLLENNU AND BLAY JJSC JUDGMENT OF ADUMUA-BOSSMAN JSC This appeal is against a judgment dated 13 April 1962 of the High Court, Kumasi, (Djabanor J.) by which, upon the plaintiff’s claim “for the court to cause the correct boundary between the plaintiff and the

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 29 FEBRUARY 1964 Before: ADUMUA-BOSSMAN, MILLS-ODOI AND BLAY JJSC JUDGMENT OF MILLS-ODOI JSC Mills-Odoi JSC delivered the judgment of the court. The appellant was charged with murdering his wife and was convicted of this crime at the criminal session of the High Court held at Ho at a trial

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 29 FEBRUARY 1964 Before: SARKODEE-ADOO C.J., ADUMUA-BOSSMAN AND BLAY JJSC JUDGMENT OF ADUMUA-BOSSMAN JSC The incidents which led to the action resulting in this appeal are scarcely in dispute, and they are these: The parties entered into negotiation for the sale and purchase of a plot of land with

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 29 FEBRUARY 1964 Before: ADUMUA-BOSSMAN, MILLS-ODOI AND OLLENNU JJ.SC JUDGMENT OF ADUMUA-BOSSMAN JSC This appeal is against a judgment dated 11 May 1962 of the High Court, Sunyani, whereby the respondent’s claim was upheld, the substance of which was that two cocoa farms described in the writ and statement

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 29 FEBRAURY 1964 Before: ADUMUA-BOSSMAN, MILLS-ODOI AND OLLENNU JJSC JUDGMENT OF ADUMUA-BOSSMAN JSC This appeal is against a decision of Charles J. dated 5 June 1962 in the Sekondi High Court whereby he gave judgment against the plaintiff-appellant (hereinafter called shortly the appellant) dismissing his claim for (1) a

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 28 FEBRUARY 1964 Before: SARKODEE-ADDO CJ, ADUMUA-BOSSMAN AND BLAY JJSC JUDGMENT OF ADUMUA-BOSSMAN JSC This appeal is against a final judgment dated 17 June 1963, and a consequential interlocutory judgment dated 26 June 1963 by the High Court, Accra, whereby the court upheld the plaintiff’s claim for damages and

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA Date: 31 JANUARY 1964 Before: PREMPEH J JUDGMENT OF PREMPEH J The plaintiff is the brother of the late Sobhy Baksmaty who died in Accra on 19 April 1963 and the defendant is his widow by whom he had six children, five girls and one boy. By another marriage