Paramount Chief Kamanda Bongay & Ors V. F. S. Macauley (1931) LJR-WACA
Paramount Chief Kamanda Bongay & Ors V. F. S. Macauley (1931) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal West African Court of Appeal—Rules 10 and 11—Different times within which Application for leave to Appeal may be Entertained—Interpretation. The fact that a party may apply to the Court of Appeal for leave to […]
G. VALENTINE FELIX & Anor V. H. C. BANKOLE-BRIGHT (1930) LJR-WACA
G. VALENTINE FELIX & Anor V. H. C. BANKOLE-BRIGHT (1930) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Practice—Application for leave to appeal to Privy Council—Amount of judgment debt below appealable limit costs. Where a n appeal does not lie for mattes* in dispute below a certain value, the costs awarded cannot be […]
Fattou N’Jie V. Richard James Hall (1931) LJR-WACA
Fattou N’Jie V. Richard James Hall (1931) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Landlord and Tenant—Tenancy at Will—Possession for twelve years withow paying rent—Limitation Acts, 1833 and 1874—No necessity for adverse possession. The Plaintiff wag in the year 1913 put in occupation of certain property rent-free by one Hall. Hall died […]
Duvat & Anor V. Louis Orcel (1931) LJR-WACA
Duvat & Anor V. Louis Orcel (1931) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Practice—Appeal—Date of Fa* of-Motion—Date of Application– judicature Act, 187k section 25 (6)—Assignsund of Right of Actiow—No Notice to lhattoc—Negligence.–Common Carrier– Act of God—Onus 4 Pro4 Facts A motor car belonging to one Huchard was lost in the River […]
Kpakpa Dogah & Ors V. Fiagbenu Kwasinye (1931) LJR-WACA
Kpakpa Dogah & Ors V. Fiagbenu Kwasinye (1931) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Hebeas Corpus—Rule Nisi Discharged—Appeal–Person Detained at Large. An appeal does not lie in any case of proceedings for or upon a writ of Habeas Corpus when at the time of bringing the appeal the person alleged to […]
Kweku Danso & Anor V. Kuturka Yardom (1930) LJR-WACA
Kweku Danso & Anor V. Kuturka Yardom (1930) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Practice—Writ of Possession—Rules of Supreme Court, Order XLV rule 5, Schedule 2—Interpleader. The Appellant had been successful in a land dispute and obtained a writ of possession from the Court. The Respondent claimed that he occupied certain […]
Con Enq. No 939 (Accra) Came Ofori Atta Afircan Selection Trust Ltd (1933) LJR-WACA
Con Enq. No 939 (Accra) Came Ofori Atta Afircan Selection Trust Ltd (1933) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Concession enquity–Opposition to grant of a Certificate of Validity—Breach of covenant between grantors and opposers—Breach of contract of service between claimant and opposers—Section 12 (3) of Concessions Ordinance—Litigation in the Gold Coast […]
C. Boi Owusu & Anor V. Manch of Labadi (1933) LJR-WACA
C. Boi Owusu & Anor V. Manch of Labadi (1933) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Rival claims to compensation under the Public Lands Ordinance between a Stool and two of its subjects—Proof of long and uninterruped user of some Stool land by those subjects—Such user not sufficient by itself to […]
Emma C. Bruce V. Tom Boevey Barrett (1931) LJR-WACA
Emma C. Bruce V. Tom Boevey Barrett (1931) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Practice—Issue of Writ—Leave to serve out of Jurisdiction—Order for Substituted Service—R.S.C. 2nd Schedule, Order X rules 9-11—R.S.C. 1st Schedule Order 111 rule 5. Facts The defendant in this suit was outside the jurisdiction when the suit was […]
Assampong V. Chief Kweku Amuaku & Ors (1933) LJR-WACA
Assampong V. Chief Kweku Amuaku & Ors (1933) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Trespass to land—The unrecorded decision of a body of persons who were neither members of a Court of Justice nor Arbitrators may constitute a res judicata in such a case. Facts In an act on for trespass […]