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Case Law
4493 cases across 17 courts
4493 cases
[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...
[1959] GLR 92 | 1959-02-28
(His lordship set out the respective cases of the parties, and proceeded): — The question of the jurisdiction of this Court to entertain the appeal a rises firstly for consideration. The Writ of Summons, on the face of...
[1959] GLR 89 | 1959-02-27
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Buem -Krachi Native Appeal Court, which upheld a decision of the Buem Native Court "B" given in favour of the plaintiff, but varied an order made by the Native Court "B" for the...
[1959] GLR 152 | 1959-02-27
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 3 (His lordship stated the history of the case, and proceeded: —) The defendants argue that the order in a criminal court for payment of compensation out...
[1959] GLR 67 | 1959-02-26
Van Lare, Ag. C.J. delivered the judgment of the Court. This is a judgment of the Court in the preparation of which we all have participated. The appeal is from a judgment of Benson J. delivered on the 12th January,...
[1959] GLR 79 | 1959-02-26
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 6 become part of the a ncestral property belonging to all those known as “family,” who claim descent from a common a ncestress. It is generally known that...
[1959] GLR 151 | 1959-02-16
(His lordship stated the facts, and proceeded: -) The question for consideration is: In what circumstances ought leave be given to a spouse to present to the Court a petition for divorce within three years of the...
X.224 | 1959-02-06
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 defence to give me authority for his proposition that the brother is preferred to the mother. He confessed he could find none. I am not at all surprised...
[1959] GLR 54 | 1959-02-03
Van Lare Ag. C.J. delivered the judgment of the Court: This is an appeal from a decision of the Land Court, Kumasi, reversing concurrent findings of fact as to whether the house in dispute between the parties was...
[1959] GLR 58 | 1959-02-03
Van Lare Ag. C.J. delivered the judgment of the Court In this case the learned Judge on the 20th of November, 1957 observed that the case was one proper for an enquiry by the Stool Lands Boundary Commissioner under the...
[1959] GLR 49 | 1959-02-02
In this a dministration matter, it a ppears that upon a motion coming on for hearing before the Divisional Court the parties failed to come to an a greement among themselves as to the person or [p.50] persons to whom a...
[1959] GLR 50 | 1959-02-02
The facts in this appeal are not in dispute. Briefly stated they are as follows. The respondent inherited his uncle’s cocoa farm, a djoining which was virgin forest land, the subject -matter of this suit. The a...
T.V.T. 9/1958. | 1959-01-29
(His lordship stated the history of the Matter, and proceeded): — Under the Native Courts (Southern Section of Togoland) Ordinance, the powers of a Magistrate in land causes are restricted to transferring a matter to...
[1959] GLR 35 | 1959-01-28
(His lordship stated the facts, and continued); -The late Mr. Larbi died on the 30th September, 1956, and a certified copy of Probate of his Will formed part of the evidence led on behalf of the
[1959] GLR 26 | 1959-01-23
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 8 The first ground of appeal a rgued on behalf of these a ppellants by Mr. Apaloo was that "there being no proof that the house a lleged to be set on fire...
[1959] GLR 23 | 1959-01-22
On the question of the headship of the family, the evidence given by the plaintiff and by his second witness (one Comfort Korkoi Otto) that he is the head of the family was contradicted y his 4th witness. The latter...
[1959] GLR 21 | 1959-01-19
Van Lare Ag. C.J. delivered the judgment of the Court: This is an appeal from the judgment of Manyo -Plange J. dismissing the petition of a wife (the a ppellant) for dissolution of her marriage. The grounds upon which...
Citation pending | 1959-01-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 (His lordship stated the facts and history of the case, and proceeded; -) Apart from the general legal right which any citizen has to assert his title...
[1959] GLR 17 | 1959-01-17
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 4 (His lordship stated the facts and history of the case, and proceeded; -) Apart from the general legal right which any citizen has to assert his title...
Citation pending | 1958-12-17
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)...
[1968] GLR 567 | 1958-12-08
Akufo -Addo C.J. delivered the judgment of the court. The respondent, Albert Asafu -Adjaye, was brought before the High Court, Accra, presided over by Edusei J. under the provisions of the Corrupt Practices...
In 1967 it was in bags | 1958-12-08
www.zuclibrary.org ZUC Law Platform -Shaping the Future of Law. 2 [1982 -83] GLR 881, CA a pplied. Abebreseh v Kaah [1976] 2 GLR 46 and Achiampong v Achiampong the plaintiff's prior existing estate. Accord ingly, the...
[1966] GLR 482 | 1958-12-08
By their writ of summons filed in the High Court, Kumasi, the respondents (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiffs), claimed a declaration of title to a house situate at Yonso near Jamasi in Ashanti. Although the...
[1959] GLR1 | 1958-12-03
(His Lordship stated the facts, and proceeded: -) The Preventive Detention Act, 1958, is a nalogous to the Preventive Detention Regulations which were in force in Britain as a war -time measure, and the cases and...
Citation pending | 1958-11-25
Appeal by the plaintiffs from an order of the Court of Appeal (Jenkins and Sellers LJJ and Upjohn J) dated 5 June 1957, a ffirming an order of Wynn-Parry J dated 1 November 1956. Wynn-Parry J dismissed the action in...
Citation pending | 1958-11-04
The plaintiff brought an action charging the defendants, of whom the third was a police officer, with conspiracy to injure and defraud him, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. The plaintiff required...
Citation pending | 1958-10-30
A testator by cl 8 (i) of his will gave a dwelling-house to a local authority on trust “to use and maintain the same as a children ’ s home” and expressed the desire that the home should be conducted a long domestic...
Citation pending | 1958-10-23
By his will dated 17 June 1942, a testator made gifts to his grandchildren on their respective marriages. The testator further provided that for the purposes of his will “the expression ‘ marry ’ shall mean marry a...
Citation pending | 1958-10-03
Landlord and Tenant – Repair – Breach of covenant – Notice to remedy breach served on tenant – Counter-notice served by tenant – Assignment of lease and surrender by a ssignee – Action for damages for breach of...
Citation pending | 1958-07-21
In regard to the question of damages the following were the facts. Dr Baker was forty-one at the time of his death and his widow was about the same age. There were two children of their marriage, a boy of twelve and a...
Citation pending | 1958-06-23
(ii) moreover, (a) even if the county council had so negligently constructed the island and road as to be liable for injuries caused by the danger so created while the county council remained in charge of the road...
Citation pending | 1958-06-13
On 9 September 1957, within six months of the letters of a dministration being taken out, the respondent issued a writ claiming damages for negligence against the a ppellant. The defendant pleaded that the action was...
Citation pending | 1958-06-05
In March, 1955, the first defendant started to use certain land as a caravan site. In April, 1955, the local planning authority served an enforcement notice on him under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947,...