Judgements

HIGH COURT, KUMASI DATE: 3 MAY 1966 BEFORE: APALOO J. CASES REFERRED TO (1) Hughes v. Metropolitan Railway Co. (1877) 2 App.Cas. 439 (2) Birmingham and District Land Co. v. London and North Western Railway (1888) 40 Ch. 268 [p.325] of [1962] 1 GLR 324 (3) Central London Property Trust, Ltd. v. High Trees House […]

SOADWAH ALIAS SONDURA AND OTHERS vs. OBENG AND OTHERS [1966] GLR 338 [SUPREME COURT] DATE: 2 MAY 1966. CORAM: MILLS-ODOI, AKAINYAH AND SIRIBOE JJ.S.C. JUDGMENT OF MILLS-ODOI J.S.C. I agree with the reasons in the judgment which my brother Akainyah is about to read for our allowing this appeal. It is not necessary to recapitulate

Division: HIGH COURT, CAPE COAST Date: 29 NOVEMBER 1965 Before: ARCHER J JUDGMENT OF ARCHER J The facts in this appeal briefly are as follows: the appellant, by a credit sale agreement dated 15 May 1964 (admitted in evidence in the court below as exhibit A) purchased one Bedford truck No. CP 8405 from the

Division: SUPREME COURT Date: 28 JUNE 1965 Before: MILLS-ODOI, APALOO AND SIRIBOE JJSC JUDGMENT OF MILLS-ODOI JSC This is an appeal from the judgment of Bannerman J. delivered on 16 December 1964 in the High Court, Tamale, by which he dismissed the plaintiff’s claim against the defendants for damages for defamation and false imprisonment. I

Division: SUPREME COURT Date: 5 MARCH 1965 Before: MILLS-ODOI, OLLENNU AND SIRIBOE JJSC JUDGMENT OF SIRIBOE JSC Siriboe JSC delivered the judgment of the court. The appellant was convicted of murdering one Charles Kofi Aidoo on 14 December 1963 at Moree, near Cape Coast. The trial was before Charles J. sitting with a jury, and

Division: HIGH COURT, ACCRA Date: 1 MARCH 1965 Before: APALOO JSC JUDGMENT OF APALOO JSC On 23 February 1965, I heard together without making a formal order for consolidation, two motions which sought two separate orders affecting the money and other property of two persons by name Kwame Kwakye and Moses Adeyemi both of whom

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA Date: 28 DECEMBER 1964 Before: KINGSLEY-NYINAH J JUDGMENT OF KINGSLEY-NYINAH J  This is an appeal wherein the appellant who pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing before the District Court, Accra, on 25 November 1964, and was duly convicted and sentenced to a fine of £G25 or three months’

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA Date: 23 DECEMBER, 1964 Before: ARCHER J JUDGMENT OF ARCHER J The petitioner seeks the dissolution of his marriage on the ground of the respondent’s cruelty and desertion. The parties were married in 1929 and all the children of the marriage have attained their majority. The petitioner’s case is

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, KUMASI Date: 18 DECEMBER 1964 Before: APALOO JSC JUDGMENT OF APALOO JSC In this action, the plaintiff representing a syndicate of Akwapim farmers, claims against the defendants an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants from any further interference with the rights of the plaintiff on a large tract of

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 18 DECEMBER 1964 Before: MILLS-ODOI, ACOLATSE AND SIRIBOE JJSC JUDGMENT OF MILLS-ODOI JSC Mills Odoi JSC delivered the judgment of the court. The appellants were convicted by Apaloo J. (as he then was), sitting with assessors at the Criminal Session of the High Court at Kumasi on 12 December