[2019]DLHC10312July 22, 2019High Court

NII ADJEI KPOBI ASAAWA & ORS. vs. CLEMENT MENSAH ANANG & ANOR.

The plaintiffs/applicants request this Court for an Order of interlocutory injunction against the defendants/respondents, restraining them from developing and/or interfering with the parcel of land which is the subject of the substantive suit. The reasons of the plaintiffs/applicants for this request is that the first defendant/respondent’s family (the Nii Kweiman Family of Kweiman) is a customary licensee of the plaintiffs’ families and has registered portions of the land in their family name without the consent of the plaintiffs’ families and also that the 2nd defendant/respondent, an estate developer, is fast developing the land in dispute in a bid to change the character of the land. The plaintiffs say that the Nii Kweitia family of Kweiman could not have granted portions of the disputed land to the 2nd defendant/respondent because the said family does not own the land and therefore it could not give or grant what it does not own to the second defendant/respondents. The def...