[2016]DLHC4224 • November 29, 2016 • High Court
THEOPHILIA ACHEAMPONG vs. SOS GHANA
The Plaintiff, Theophilia Acheampong, was admitted as a child at SOS Ghana Village at age 10 in 1974. After marriage, she left but later returned to live in a house built by SOS Ghana, which she claimed was gifted to her. Her daughter began renovation works on the house, which the Defendant demolished. The Plaintiff claimed ownership and sought declarations and damages for unlawful demolition. The Defendant denied gifting the house, asserting it was staff accommodation and that the Plaintiff lived there at their pleasure.
read moreSuch is the trouble as in this case when a guardian and her “child’ of forty-two years relationship mount the litigation arena to face each other. The invitation for the contest was initiated by the Plaintiff barely a year ago and the Defendant accepted the challenge with a view to proving to the Plaintiff that it does not pay to tell the one carrying you at his back that he stinks. The facts simply are that the Plaintiff was among the pioneer inmates of SOS, Ghana admitted at their village at the age of ten (10) in 1974. She left the Village when she married. She was later accommodated at the Village, where she stayed for a long time with her husband and children. Recently, when the Plaintiff’s daughter began renovation/extension works on the building, the Defendant razed everything down. The Plaintiff contends that the building was built and gifted to her, but the Defendant claimed otherwise. The endorsement contained in the plaintiff’s writ of summons was: a. A decla...