Full Length Cases from the Courts
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 28TH SEPTEMBER, 1959. Before: VAN LARE J.A. AS C.J., GRUNVILLE SHARP J.A. AND OLLENNU J. Gyelego Grumah was behaving so abnormally in his town that he came to be regarded as an insane person, and was in consequence taken by his landlord to a native medicine man for […]
R. v. GRUMAH [1959] GLR 307 Read More »
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 28TH SEPTEMBER, 1959. Before: VAN LARE J.A. AS C.J., GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. AND OLLENNU J. JUDGMENT OF GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. This appellant was convicted by a jury before Simpson J., sitting at Accra on the 23rd April, 1959, for the murder of one Kwabena Ahunu at Okrakwadjo on
R v. KWADWO MENSAH [1959] GLR 309 Read More »
Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, HO Date: 22ND SEPTEMBER, 1959. Before: SIMPSON J. JUDGMENT OF SIMPSON J. (His lordship referred to the history of the case, and continued:- The District Magistrate decided to call evidence as to the customary law involved. The witness, unfortunately, was not asked what customs are required to be performed where
KOFI v. AGBOTSE [1959] GLR 305 Read More »
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 18TH SEPTEMBER, 1959 Before: KORSAH C.J., VAN LARE J.A. AND GRAVILLE SHARP J.A. JUDGMENT OF VAN LARE J.A. Van Lare J A. delivered the judgment of the Court. (His Lordship referred to the facts and proceeded:-) The appeal was ably argued for the appellant, mainly on the ground
R v. BUSANGA [1959] GLR 303 Read More »
Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, CAPE COAST Date: 31ST AUGUST, 1959. Before: ADUMUA-BOSSMAN J. JUDGMENT OF ADUMUA-BOSSMAN J. (His lordship stated the history of the matter, and continued:—) The absence of any evidence of the delivery of the defamatory air-letter to, or of its receipt by, the addressee, and the rather strong suspicion raised
R v. FRIMPONG [1959] GLR 287 Read More »
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 25TH JUNE, 1959. Before: KORSAH C.J., VAN LARE J.A. AND OLLENNU J. JUDGMENT OF VAN LARE , J.A. The plaintiff, by his writ of summons issued on the 19th day of June, 1948 in the Asin Confederacy Native Court “A,” claimed damages for trespass, and an injunction restraining
NKYI XI v. KUMAH (BEDU SUBST.) [1959] GLR 281 Read More »
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 25TH JUNE, 1959. Before: GRANVILLE SHARP J.A., ACOLATSE J. AND SMITH J. JUDGMENT OF ACOLATSE J. (His lordship stated the facts and history of the case, and proceeded:-) Counsel for 2nd defendant submitted before us that no valid notice as required by section 11(1)(e) of the Rent Control
MASSOUD & ANOR. v. KHALIL & ORS. [1959] GLR 278 Read More »
Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, CAPE COAST Date: 25 JUNE 1959 Before: ADUMUA-BOSSMAN J JUDGMENT OF ADUMUA-BOSSMAN J The appeal is against a judgment of the District Magistrate, Cape Coast (E. T. Aryee, Esq.), hereinafter referred to shortly as the magistrate, whereby, after rejecting the appellant’s plea that the claim was barred by the Limitation
SOLOMON v. ACKON [1964] GLR 1 Read More »
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 8TH JUNE, 1959. Before: GRANVILLE SHARP J. A., ACOLATSE J. AND SMITH J. ARGUMENT OF COUNSEL Bentsi-Enchill for appellant (Nettey). The onus rests on the Defence, because the trial-Judge held that the plaintiff has title, but is estopped from a grant of declaration because her predecessors had stood
NETTEY v. ODJIDJA & ANOR. [1959] GLR 261 Read More »
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 29TH MAY, 1959. Before: VAN LARE J.A. AS C.J., GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. AND ACOLATSE J. JUDGMENT OF GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. Granville Sharp J.A., delivered the judgment of the Court: (His lordship stated the facts, and proceeded:—) Whatever may be the fact as to the purchase of cloth, it
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE v. BONNEY & ORS. [1959] GLR 237 Read More »
