JOSEPH AMENYA vs. AUGUSTUS TETTEH

JUDGMENT BY COURT: On 11th December 2008 the plaintiff issued out this writ of summons accompanied by a statement of claim and claimed the following reliefs: a. Declaration of title to a piece and parcel of land and described same b. Damages for trespass to the said land c. Demolition forthwith of any structure erected on the said piece or parcel of land d. An order of injunction restraining the defendant and all persons who act or claim through the defendant. In the statement of claim that accompanied the writ, the plaintiff traced his root of title from the ApantseWe of La, being the allodial owners of a large stretch of land known and called Shiashie land. The plaintiff pleaded further that the ApantseWe had been registered as the freehold proprietor by the land Title Registry, Victoriaborg, Accra, which body is now a division or Department of the Lands Commission. He the plaintiff also applied for Land Title Certificate upon the grant of the land and was issued with Lan...