MURI BABALOLA vs. VICTORIA TAMAKLOE

JUDGMENT GYAESAYOR, JA Sometime in 1996, one Victoria Tamakloe now deceased and now substituted by one Beger Ahorlu negotiated with one Rabiu Babalola to buy a swish building at Nima for ¢37.5 million cedis. The house is numbered Ward 5 Block B15 No.362 in Accra. After the negotiation, she paid an initial amount of ¢15.5 million cedis. Subsequent to this, the said Rabiu and one of his brother’s resident in Ghana sold the house to one Miriam Ahmed without first abrogating the contract between him and the said Victoria Tamakloe. Victoria Tamakloe took action in the Circuit Court against her vendor and applied for Miriam to be joined as a co-defendant to the suit. On the 22nd day of December 2000, the Circuit Court delivered judgment in favour of Victoria Tamakloe who was plaintiff in that suit. The court then proceeded to decree title in favour of Victoria Tamakloe. Rabiu the vendor did not appeal against the judgment of the Circuit Court but the new purchaser Miriam Ahmed fi...