Judgements

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

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA Date: 29 JANUARY, 1964 Before: SOWAH J JUDGMENT OF SOWAH J This is an appeal from the ruling of the learned circuit judge when he held against the appellant that the bail bond which he entered into to secure the appearance of one Uttam Daswani subsisted at the time

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 27 JANUARY 1964 Before: SARKODEE-ADOO, OLLENNU AND BLAY JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC We dismissed the appeal in this case on 8 January 1964 reserving our reasons for so doing; we now proceed to give the reasons. By his writ of summons the plaintiff claimed £G15,000 and an order

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA Date: 27 JANUARY, 1964 Before: SOWAH J JUDGMENT OF SOWAH J In this appeal counsel for the Commissioner of Police has argued that there was no right of appeal from the decision of the circuit court judge in this matter to the High Court and in support of his