Judgment :
(The court set out the history of the case, reviewed the evidence, and continued:)
I find the following facts.
That W. A. Solomon was a young man when he succeeded Nii Adjabeng Ankrah I.
That the real properties of which he took charge were the P & B house, the Adjabeng Lodge and grounds in Accra and the Mayera village property and these were family properties.
That he did not continue the trading business of Nii Adjabeng
Ankrah or do his own business with money left by Nii Adjabeng Ankrah. On the contrary he started in business himself in a small way and when the rubber boom came, he bought rubber with advances of money from the trading firms. An enterprising hard working man, he broke away from Accra and did business at Nsawam, acquiring a ferry there with his own money before 1911. That he invested his own money in lands at Pakro and Adjinase beneath the north western spur of the Akwapim range of hills, long before the road and railway had reached those places. That he was not assisted with family money in acquiring his properties at Nsawam, Pakro, Adjinase or other places outside Accra and that the loans he gave out and the pledges of land he took, were of his own moneys.
That in 1910 the £10 monthly rent of the P & B property was being appropriated by P & B Ltd. towards settlement of an outstanding account of £794 for alterations.
That when he was already a prosperous man in his own right he did receive the sum of £3000 for the sale of the Adjabeng lodge family property about 1911. That the evidence of the plaintiff's witness M. D. A. Ankrah that £2500 of this money was given to Solomon to carry on the trade at Nsawam is unsupported. The statement of a living man is not to be disbelieved because there is no corroboration, but Solomon, if alive, might have been able to give a complete answer to this and the other claims of the Plaintiff. The surrounding circumstances do not furnish corroborative evidence in support of Ankrah as to this payment. (If, even, it is accepted as true it was money given to Solomon on a contract to trade and not to purchase family property at Nsawam or other places in the interior with. I have held that these properties were purchased with his own money.)
That he did convey to the Government two parcels of land in Accra for £875 in the year 1911 . That these two pieces of land were family property. That there is no evidence that Solomon did or did not distribute this money if it was paid to him among the me
