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Case Law
3174 cases across 17 courts
3174 cases
[1959] GLR 292 | 1959-09-10
(His lordship referred to the pleadings and continued: -) The plaintiff's first witness (a daughter) under cross -examination by counsel for the first defendant stated that her father the plaintiff had a pportioned the...
[1959] GLR 287 | 1959-08-31
(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 a ddressee, and the rather strong suspicion...
Citation pending | 1959-08-01
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 exhibit A. Quarm v Yankah II (1930) 1 W ACA 80 at 83 and Ababio v Tutu [1962] I GLR 489, SC cited. N AK II. Accordingly, the a ppellant's action was...
I confess that it seems to me to be indeed ungracious of A even to suggest it. C would not have a greed to run the risk that A might be negligent | 1959-07-24
A company, which carried on business as builders and contractors, undertook work on a well which involved clearing it of water. The well was some fifty feet deep and about six feet in diameter. H, a director of the...
Citation pending | 1959-07-24
SALMON J having stated the facts and the relief claimed by the plaintiffs, referred to the Inclosure Act of 1800 and to the commissioners ’ a ward made thereunder. His Lordship then referred to the transfer, by s 11 of...
Citation pending | 1959-07-21
By their originating summons dated 7 October 1958, the plaintiffs, the executors of the will of Tom Shipside, deceased, a sked for the determination under s 3 of the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions)...
Citation pending | 1959-07-13
By a writ issued on 6 January 1959, the plaintiff, Jasper Jocelyn John Addis, inquiry agent, claimed damages for libel contained in a document headed Findings and Orders, No 2627 – 1958, dated 14 August 1958, signed by...
[1959] GLR 269 | 1959-06-25
In this case the plaintiff -a ppellant, relying upon the oral grant to him of a certain piece of land by the Osu Stool in 1933 (confirmed by a Deed of Conveyance in 1957), sued the defendant - respondent for a...
[1959] GLR 278 | 1959-06-25
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 In our opinion, the learned trial -Judge has given a true interpretation of section 11(1)(e). After a careful consideration of the question raised by...
[1959] GLR 281 | 1959-06-25
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 the defendant, [p.283] his a gents and...
[1959] GLR 176 | 1959-06-25
contained goods which were much inferior to sample, and this state of a ffairs seems to have been [p.178] a ccepted by the defendant. An attempt was, however, made by him, and by Counsel on his behalf at the trial, to...
[1964] GLR 1 | 1959-06-25
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 a ppellant's plea that the [p.4] claim was...
Q. | 1959-06-24
A wife a ppealed against the dismissal by Barnard J on 27 November 1958, at Winchester, of her petition for divorce on the grounds of sodomy and cruelty. Barnard J having found that the cruelty had not been proved and...
Citation pending | 1959-06-17
The vendor contracted to sell for £580 the unincumbered fee simple of land which at the date of the contract was subject to a mortgage to a building society to secure repayment by monthly instalments of some £2,900 and...
[1959] GLR 457 | 1959-06-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 (1) R. v. Guardians of Lewisham Union ( [1897] 1 Q.B. 498); remedy equally convenient, beneficial and a ppropriate; (ii) there must have been a distinct...
Citation pending | 1959-06-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 (1) R. v. Guardians of Lewisham Union ( [1897] 1 Q.B. 498); (ii) there must have been a distinct demand and refusal to do the act; (iii) the duty to be...
[1959] GLR 261 | 1959-06-08
This is an appeal from a decision of the Judge in the Land Court who, on the 31st December, 1955, directed that judgment be entered for the defendants, the respondents in this Court, in a suit in which the [p.265] a...
[1959] GLR 253 | 1959-06-06
Kumasi. This enterprise had received recognition and financial support from the Government Social Welfare Department. In 1956 she began building premises for the school on plot No. 19 in the Asikwa residential are a....
Citation pending | 1959-06-05
This was an a ward in the form of a Special Case stated by the Committee of Appeal of the Incorporated Oil Seed Association (hereinafter called IOSA), under s 21(1)(b) of the Arbitration Act, 1950, on an appeal to the...
4330. | 1959-06-01
In an action for deceit in respect of a lleged fraudulent misrepresentation made in writing the question is not whether the defendant honestly believed the representation to be true in the sense a ssigned to it by the...
Citation pending | 1959-06-01
In this motion, the National Employers Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the a pplicants), have a pplied for certiorari to quash the tax a ssessments for 1962 - 63 to 1970 -71 a...
[1959] GLR 250 | 1959-06-01
(His lordship referred to the pleadings, and proceeded: -) The most important point which learned counsel for the defendant has made is that on the face of the writ of summons itself, and upon the whole evidence, the...
[1959] GLR 237 | 1959-05-29
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 is perfectly clear that the story told by the first...
[1959] GLR 241 | 1959-05-29
Plaintiff established that he obtained a grant in December, 1939 by the Anahor Stool. Prior to that, viz. in September, 1939, the Osu Stool (which includes the Anahor Stool) purported to grant land, including the...
[1959] GLR 230 | 1959-05-25
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 5 It is a dmitted by both sides that the property was sold at public auction in 1936 by order of the District Magistrate's Court, in execution of a decree...
[1959] GLR 225 | 1959-05-15
Van Lare Ag. C.J. he delivered the judgment of the Court: We a llowed this appeal at the last sitting, and now proceed to give our reasons. The a ppellant was convicted at the Magistrate’s Court, Kumasi, before Mr....
703 | 1959-05-14
Certiorari – Error on face of record – Construction of documents – Technical scientific terms – Evidence necessary to inform court of meaning of terms – Patent specifications – Whether part of record – Whether...
Citation pending | 1959-05-08
The plaintiff was the owner of one of a number of houses at the back of which was a private pathway leading from the public highway to premises owned by the defendants. The plaintiff ’ s house was the one nearest to...
[1959] GLR 214 | 1959-05-06
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Akyem Abuakwa Native Court “A” delivered on the 12th day of February, 1957. The claim was as follows: “The plaintiffs are joint owners of all that piece or parcel of land...
Citation pending | 1959-05-04
Injunction – Contravention of statute – Relator action for injunction after repeated contraventions – Scope of court ’ s discretion in relator action for an injunction – Need to show injury to public.
Citation pending | 1959-05-01
VAISEY J read the following judgment. The plaintiffs meanufacture and supply a glucose drink which is sold under the trade mark and name “Lucozade”. The defendants carry on business as grocers at Edmonton and may be...
[1959] GLR 202 | 1959-05-01
This is an appeal from the decision of Smith J. dismissing an appeal against conviction by the District Magistrate, sitting at Tamale, for the offences of conspiracy and stealing. The a ppellant was charged and...
[1959] GLR 207 | 1959-05-01
The a ppellant was convicted on the 11th December, 1958 before Bossman J., sitting with a jury at the Assizes holden at Cape Coast, upon a charge of murder. He has a ppealed to this Court against his conviction. (His...
Citation pending | 1959-04-24
The defendant, who was the lessee of certain premises, instructed the plaintiffs, a firm of estate a gents, to sell her interest in the premises, together with the goodwill of a catering business she carried on there,...
[1959] GLR 196 | 1959-04-20
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Kwahu Local Court “A” given on the 12th August, 1958, declaring certain 10 farms to be property of the plaintiff’s family stool, the Siao Stool of Twenedurase. The following...
[1959] GLR 190 | 1959-04-16
(His lordship stated the facts, and proceeded: -_) It has been submitted by Counsel for the plaintiff that this is a case of trespass pure and simple, and that upon proof that the plaintiff was in possession of the...
337/58 | 1959-04-16
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 So far as the actual execution is concerned, I do not think any liability can be a ttached to the judgment -creditor in view of the instructions given...
[1959] GLR 169 | 1959-04-10
"Claim on Order No. 12. We thank you for your letter of April 5. Although we are quite unhappy about the situation in respect of this order, we have nothing to add to our previous letters. We are a nxious to settle...
[1959] GLR 181 | 1959-04-10
(His lordship stated the facts, and proceeded: -) In this judgment the Ghana (Constitution) Order -in -Council, 1957, the Statute Law (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1957, and the Ejisu Stool Property Order, 1958, will be...
11/1957 | 1959-04-07
This matter came before the Court under section 13 of the Public Lands (Leasehold) Ordinance, for the Court to determine which of the claimants is (or are) entitled to compensation for a piece of land a cquired by the...
[1959] GLR 157 | 1959-04-02
(His lordship stated the facts and, referring to the judgment of the learned Judge of the Land Court, proceeded: -) With respect, I can find no evidence on record to support these categorical pronouncements which...
[1959] GLR 147 | 1959-03-25
(His lordship stated the facts, and proceeded): - The Court of Appeal has laid down the principle which should guide the Supreme Court as to the proper method of a scertaining the native custom a pplicable to a...
[1959] GLR 140 | 1959-03-23
(His lordship stated the facts, and proceeded) -: It is obvious that the defendant’s case in answer to the plaintiff’s claims in both cases is based a lmost exclusively on the issues of law raised in his defence, none...
[1959] GLR 135 | 1959-03-20
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 I do not consider there is any substance in the submission that this action, being one for slander, should have filed because there was no proof of...
[1959] GLR 130 | 1959-03-20
(His lordship dealt with, and dismissed, a preliminary objection to the appeal, and continued: --) Now the issue which was tried by the Native Court involved: (1) a question of fact, and (2) a question of law, i.e....
Citation pending | 1959-03-19
In a ccordance with the terms of an offer made by a limited company to certain of its executive officers, the taxpayer a pplied for and was granted on 7 October 1954, in return for a payment of £20 an option to...
[1959] GLR 128 | 1959-03-16
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 Korsah C.J. delivered the judgment of the Court. There is no merit in the substantive appeal, and Counsel has a cted wisely in not continuing to argue...
[1959] GLR 125 | 1959-03-13
At the close of the a rguments on the 27th February last, we a llowed this appeal. We now give our reasons. The a ppellant was convicted by Murphy J., sitting with a ssessors at Assizes holden at Kumasi, of the offence...
Citation pending | 1959-03-12
The plaintiffs, who were holders in due course of bills of exchange of which the defendants were the a cceptors, were resident outside the “scheduled territories” for the purposes of the Exchange Control Act, 1947. The...
[1959] GLR 105 | 1959-03-10
(His lordship referred to the pleadings, and continued): - The primary question for determination would a ppear to be whether either the plaintiff's a rrest and detention, or his subsequent prosecution, was at the...