[2016]DLHC11962February 26, 2016High Court

DANIEL S. B. BOTCHWAY vs. VICTOR AKUSHEY-STEVENS, HAJIA MUNIRATU

JUDGMENT Plaintiff as Head of Family of the late Daniel Seth Botchway issued a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim against the Defendants on 19th June 2012 for the following reliefs: 1. A declaration that a purported conveyance of a piece or parcel of land situate lying and being at Chuim-Odorkor, Accra covering an approximate area of 0.18 acre and particularly described in the statement of Claim by late Daniel Seth Botchway to the late Emmanuel Amukwei Akushey-Stevens is forgery and as such null and void. 2. Recovery of possession 3. An order directed to the Lands Commission (Registration Division) to cancel the land registration No.1238/1973 in the name of the late Emmanuel Amukwei Akushey-Stevens. BRIEF FACTS Plaintiff who is the head of Family of the late Daniel Seth Botchway avers that the late Daniel Seth Botchway acquired the land in dispute in 1961 from the Gbawe Tawiah Family. The late Daniel Botchway registered the said transaction and farmed on the land but did no...