AMUA-SEKYI J.S.C. The late William Edmund Pieterson, a native of Awukugua in Akuapem, but for many years a resident of Cape Coast, died in 1927.  In 1970, that is some 43 years later, his children Edmund, Ernestina and Ernest issued a writ at the High Court, Sekondi against the defendant-corporation claiming damages for trespass alleged to have been committed by the corporation in respect of three mining concessions they said belonged to their late father. 