VICTORIA AFFUL vs. ADDO WIAFE

JUDGMENT The brief facts of this case as captured by the statement of claim of the Plaintiff are that: The Plaintiff is a businesswoman and owner in possession of all that parcel of land described in the schedule below which is situate at New Bortianor, Accra. The Defendant is a trespasser on Plaintiff’s land who lives in Accra. Plaintiff says that sometime in the year 2008, she took a grant of land described in the schedule below from Nii Akotey IV, Dzaasetse and acting Bortianor Mantse who was the lawful representative of the Bortianor stool with the tacit approval of the principal members of the said stool. Plaintiff contends that after the said grant was made to her, she took physical possession of the land which was then bare and swampy, in the full glare of the whole world including Defendant without any let or hindrances. Plaintiff says in pursuance of paragraph 3, she obtained 880 trips of laterite soil to fill up the land which was swampy with weeds. Plaintiff furt.....