Principle Archive

Where a plaintiff fails to adduce sufficient evidence on a crucial point, and where the state of evidence does not entitle the defendant to judgment, the…

A non-suit is appropriate where there is no satisfactory evidence enabling the court to give judgment to either of the parties and wronging neither. Since both…

An injunction can only be granted and binding when the boundaries of the area or areas to be affected are ascertained, well known and properly described.

In civil cases which are decided on the basis of preponderance or balance of evidence, the omnibus ground of appeal is simply that the judgment is…

It is the law that perverse findings cannot sustain a judgment even if upheld on appeal by the Court of Appeal. The court below was in…

Since the establishment of Arandun in 1931 up till 1994, when the last Ejemu died a period of 63 years, the Ejemu who ruled Arandun were…

If exhibit D1 was intended to be an agreement between the Imoji and the Imode compounds on the rotation of the chieftaincy between the two compounds,…

Pleadings are the body and soul of any case in a skeleton form and are built up and solidified by the evidence in support thereof. They…

I am not unaware of the well-settled principle of law that this court does not interfere with the concurrent findings of facts of two lower courts…

According to the well-known principle laid down in Kojo II v. Bonsie, the way to decide which of two plausible histories is more probable is to…

Evidence led by a party can be fully relied on by the other party either to establish his case or to damage or demolish the case…

The rule in Kojo v. Bonsie is that where parties rely on traditional history in proof of their title and the evidence of traditional history is…