ANAMAN vs. OSEI TUTU

JUDGMENT OF GRIFFITHS-RANDOLPH J. In this case, the plaintiff has sued the defendant claiming a declaration of title to a piece of land at South Odorkor, Accra, and also damages for trespass, perpetual injunction and recovery of possession. On 29 April 1974 he obtained leave of the court to serve a notice of a motion for interim injunction together with a writ of summons and statement of claim and when Mr. Yankson, on behalf of the plaintiff, formally moved the court on 5 July 1974, he also referred to paragraphs (1)-(3) of the statement of claim, pointing out that the root of their title dated back to 1965. He stated further that the land was purchased by his client in 1966; also that the vendor got appropriate government concurrence the following year and that four years later the Sempe stool confirmed the transaction almost three months before the defendant alleged that the same stool granted the land to him, so that the fact that his client’s grant was registered in 1974 wh.....