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[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...
[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...