DONKOH V. NKRUMAH AND OTHERS [1964] GLR 739-755

Practice and procedure—Local court—Pleadings—Absence of—Necessity of appeal court looking at the wording of the writ and the whole of the proceedings in order to ascertain the real nature of the claim and the issues raised.

Estoppel—Per rem judicatam—Land—Local court judgment obtained by fraud— Whether party entitled to resort to local court again for remedy.

Land law and conveyancing—Writ of fieri facias—Sale under—Sale conducted with all necessary formalities under purported court order which was in fact not made—Whether illegality or irregularity—Whether Native Courts (Ashanti) Procedure Rules, 1949 (No. 32 of 1949), Vol. VIII (1954 Rev.), rr. 101, 102 and 103 relevant.

