GEORGE OSEI AKWASI vs. ALEX KWASI ADJEI & 6 ORS

TORKORNOO, J. A: This is an appeal from the high court, land division, Accra. The Plaintiff/Appellant and 1st Defendant/Respondent agreed that they had a close relationship for more than a decade before the facts that led to this dispute occurred. While the Appellant described the 1st Respondent as his houseboy and caretaker of his property, the 1st Respondent described himself as a friend to the Appellant. The other Respondents are tenants in the subject matter of the dispute. It was undisputed in the high court that the land with building known as House No C580/14, Dzorwulu belongs to the Appellant. It was also not contested that the Appellant had a one-storey building on the land as at 2007. It is also not contested that by 2010, the Appellant’s house had been pulled down by the 1st Respondent. In it’s place, the 1st Respondent had constructed a hostel comprising 23 rooms. He did this in the absence of the Appellant who was then living in the Netherlands. It is the destructi...