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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
[1964] GLR 423 | 1964-06-29
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from a judgment of Bruce - Lyle J. delivered at Sunyani on 24 January 1963 which reversed a judgment of the Brong/Ahafo Central Local Court Division...
Citation pending | 1964-06-25
The upper floors of the premises, a large terrace house going to seed, were let off in single room a partments, though not structurally converted for the purpose. Each occupant had a right of exclusive occupation of...
Citation pending | 1964-06-23
Declaration – Jurisdiction – Hypothetical question – Dividend stripping operation – Question how, a ssuming that taxpayer company was a dealer in securities, its a ccounts should be made up – Decision of House of Lords...
[1964] GLR 410 | 1964-06-22
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 of the Accra...
[1964] GLR 399 | 1964-06-22
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant, hereinafter called the plaintiff, father of one Herman Wilhelm Hesse, Jnr., deceased, sued on behalf of himself and other dependants of his said...
[1964] GLR 381 | 1964-06-22
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 the statement of claim, the...
[1964] GLR 405 | 1964-06-22
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...
Citation pending | 1964-06-17
to schedule and the traffic department knew that he was a ddicted to speed and inclined to take risks to keep to schedule; further, the transgressions of some masters of ships fitted with radar by proceeding at...
[1964] GLR 1 | 1964-06-12
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 and was a llowed to drive the plaintiff in plaintiff's own car to Tamale under a police escort who was also lodged in the car. Upon a rrival in Tamale...
[1964] GLR 377 | 1964-06-12
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 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...
[1964] GLR 365 | 1964-05-25
Ollennu J.S.C. 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 a side the sale of a farm made...
[1964] GLR 361 | 1964-05-22
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. On 1 May 1964, we a llowed the appeal of the a ppellant against his conviction, quashed his conviction and the sentences passed upon him, and ordered him to be a...
[1964] GLR 354 | 1964-05-22
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from a revision order made by Sarkodee -Adoo C.J., on 27 February 1964, under section 60 of the Courts Act, 1960.1 The a ppellant was charged before...
[1964] GLR 344 | 1964-05-22
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the ruling of the court. The a ppellant on 8 November 1963, pleaded guilty before the District Magistrate, Kumasi, to a charge of a ssault under section 84 of the Criminal Code, 1960,1 and...
[1964] GLR 332 | 1964-05-18
Apaloo J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The material facts of this case are not in dispute and can be stated briefly. Some time in 1956, the respondent and Edward Ramia entered into a partnership for the...
[1964] GLR 322 | 1964-05-18
This is an appeal from the judgment of Acolatse J., as he then was, dated 10 December 1962, in an interpleader suit in which certain moveable properties were seized in execution by the deputy sheriff 's officer for...
Citation pending | 1964-05-15
Rule 4(1)(o)a of the Matrimonial Causes Rules, 1957, which was a dded by SI 1963 No 1990, is not ultra vires, being within the general rule-making power contained in s 99(1)(a) of the Supreme Court of Judicature...
[1964] GLR 317 | 1964-05-14
The main points a rgued in this appeal are points of law. Counsel however submitted that in the case of the third a ppellant there was no evidence upon which she could be found liable for uttering the slanderous words...
[1964] GLR 299 | 1964-05-11
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. In or about 1958 the a ppellant raised a loan from the second respondent, £G60 being the a ggregate amount to be repaid. No details or particulars were given as to...
[1964] GLR 288 | 1964-05-11
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from an order for certiorari, made by the High Court, Kumasi, quashing a writ of fi. fa. issued by the Local Court, Teppa, and declaring null and...
[1964] GLR 311 | 1964-05-11
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. These proceedings commenced with a petition under sections 91, 89 (4) and (5) and 90 (2) and (3) of the Companies Ordinance,1 brought for and on behalf of Messrs....
[1964] GLR 3 | 1964-05-08
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 The plaintiff's evidence is that she knew nothing about the existence of any mortgage on this house (to Ollivant) and that it was when she went to the...
Citation pending | 1964-05-04
Apaloo J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The facts of the case are, in the main, not in dispute and can be stated briefly. The a ppellants (who I shall hereafter call the plaintiffs) are the customary...
[1964] GLR 256 | 1964-05-01
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. We a llowed the appeal in this case on 3 April 1964 after hearing the submissions of counsel, and now proceed to give our reasons. The a ppellant was convicted by the...
[1964] GLR 267 | 1964-05-01
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the ruling of the court. The a ppellant -a pplicant on 8 November 1963, pleaded guilty before the District Magistrate, Kumasi, to a charge of a ssault under section 84 of the Criminal Code,...
[1964] GLR 262 | 1964-05-01
Apaloo J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. Both a ppellants were on 19 March 1963 convicted before the circuit court of stealing and the first a ppellant a lone was convicted on eleven counts of falsification...
[1964] GLR 253 | 1964-04-21
The plaintiff, trading under the name and style of Jimoh Aremu and Brothers, sued the defendants for: (1) an injunction to restrain the defendants, their a gents and servants from infringing the plaintiff's said trade...
[1964] GLR 248 | 1964-04-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 negligent driving of the said driver Yaw Appiah, and that Sussana Adu died as a result of the injuries she suffered from the a ccident. The defendants...
[1964] GLR 242 | 1964-04-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 Then the bottles go to the brush section of the washing machine. A brush is introduced into the bottles and washed out and sprayed with water. Then the...
[1964] GLR 239 | 1964-04-03
This small appeal has brought into focus the difficult question of the punishment or sentence of co -defendants; the fact that co -defendants [p.240] have been punished at the same time draws a ttention to any...
[1964] GLR 234 | 1964-03-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 On or about the 29 June 1961, the plaintiff was involved in a motor a ccident while travelling in vehicle No. AN. 293 driven by one Kofi Fofie. The a...
Citation pending | 1964-03-17
This was an action by the plaintiff, Alexander Baxter, against his employers, the first defendants, Central Electricity Generating Board, and the second defendants, International Combustion Co Ltd for damages for...
[1964] GLR 138 | 1964-02-29
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 defendant...
[1964] GLR 100 | 1964-02-29
This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Accra, dated 11 February 1963. That judgment a warded damages in favour of the plaintiff -respondent against the defendant -a ppellant as a result of injuries...
[1964] GLR 755 | 1964-02-29
The plaintiff -respondent (hereinafter referred to as the respondent) brought an action against Larbi Armah (hereinafter referred to as the defendant) and Amartey Laryea (hereinafter referred to as the a ppellant)...
[1964] GLR 95 | 1964-02-29
On 8 January 1963, the High Court, Accra, made absolute, a decree nisi which it granted in favour of the petitioner -respondent dissolving the latter's marriage with the a pplicant. The husband who is the present a...
[1964] GLR 119 | 1964-02-29
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from a judgment of the High Court, holden at Sunyani, given in favour of the respondent, hereinafter called the plaintiff, for a declaration of...
163 | 1964-02-29
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 the building thereon in...
[1964] GLR 122 | 1964-02-29
Mills -Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant was convicted by a jury before Akiwumi J. sitting at the criminal session of the High Court held at Sekondi on 14 March 1963, for the murder of one...
[1964] GLR 112 | 1964-02-29
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant 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 of the a ppellant....
[1964] GLR 78 | 1964-02-29
The a ppellant, hereinafter called the plaintiff, sued the first respondent, hereinafter called the first defendant, in the High Court, Accra, and claimed declaration of title, recovery of possession, damages for...
[1964] GLR 128 | 1964-02-29
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The plaintiff, respondent in this appeal, is successor to one Kwame Num, late of Bomaa, and the defendants, the a ppellants, are children of the said Kwame Num who...
[1964] GLR 70 | 1964-02-29
Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant 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 the night...
[1964] GLR 65 | 1964-02-29
Mills -Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The a ppellant 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 before Siriboe...
[1964] GLR 90 | 1964-02-29
These cross -a ppeals came from the High Court, Kumasi, presided over by Djabanor J. in a case in which the plaintiffs claimed against the defendants a declaration of title to a large tract of land situate and lying at...
[1964] GLR 174 | 1964-02-29
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 of claim...
[1964] GLR 718 | 1964-02-28
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 other...
A3737667 still in force under which he insured his car a Wolseley saloon No. AG. 8889 for | 1964-02-21
The a pplicants in this a pplication seek an order othis court to set a side the a ward of the umpire in an a rbitration on three grounds that is to say; (a) The a rbitrators did not deliver to any party to the a...
[1964] GLR 56 | 1964-01-31
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 the deceased had a...
[1964] GLR 54 | 1964-01-29
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 This is an appeal from the ruling of the learned circuit judge when he held against the a ppellant that the bail bond which he entered into to secure...