[2010]DLSC2584 • May 12, 2010 • Supreme Court •
SYLVIA GREGORY vs. NANA KWESI TANDOH IV AND BRIDGET HANSON
The plaintiff, an African American resident in Ghana, entered into a close relationship with the defendants, a married couple residing in the same house in Ankaful, Cape Coast. The plaintiff contributed funds towards the construction of a house on land belonging to the defendants and occupied the first floor, while the defendants occupied the ground floor. The plaintiff claimed ownership interest in the property based on her contributions, while the defendants disputed the extent of her contributions and ownership rights. The relationship deteriorated, leading to legal action over possession and ownership rights.
read moreDOTSE, JSC: INTRODUCTION The parties in this case began their relationships on a good note as friends, presumably later as lovers and lately as bitter enemies, who are residing in the same house, albeit in different apartments. When a similar set of facts emerged in the unreported Sekondi High Court case of suit No. TS 2/2000 intituled I.B. Clement – Plaintiff vrs Andrews Annietey – Defendant dated 4th June, 2003 I quoted the following passage from William Shakespeare’s Book, Julius Caesar Act IV, Scene 3, to depict the circumstances and this reads as follows:- “There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which taken at the floods, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life, is bound in shallows, and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; we must take the current when it serves or lose our ventures.” FACTS: Even though the facts of this case admit of no serious controversies, in view of the concurring findings of fact made by the trial High Cou...