REBECCA ANSONG vs. MAAME KOSHIWA AND ANOTHER

The plaintiff herein sued the defendants herein for four reliefs, namely 1. A declaration that as the spouse of the legal tenant of House No. AD. 17B, Community 5, Tema she was entitled to be recognized as the legal tenant of the said house. 2. An order to the 2nd defendant to transfer the said house into the plaintiff’s name. 3. Perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, their agents, task force, workmen, assigns etc. from ejecting the plaintiff from the said house. 4. Damages for trespass. In the accompanying statement of claim, the plaintiff averred, inter alia, as follows: the house in question was, at all material times, her matrimonial home; her husband, as the legal tenant of the house, introduced (in writing) the 1st defendant to the 2nd defendant as his caretaker as he was travelling to his village; the 2nd defendant was never to change tenancy into the name of the 1st defendant; the plaintiff’s husband later travelled to Nigeria where he died and was burie...