[2019]DLHC16500 • October 14, 2019 • High Court
GEORGE WEBADUAH-KUYI AND CECILIA WEBADUAH-KUYI vs. MR. OSEI
JUDGMENT Plaintiffs’ Case The plaintiffs are citizens of Ghana and a married couple. It is the plaintiffs’ case that they acquired the land in dispute which amounted to two plots in 2007 as evidenced by a deed of indenture dated the 24th day of July 2007 between one Ebenezer Tetteh Anteh and the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs aver that since acquiring the land, they have exercised overt acts of ownership and possession by constructing a dwelling house on one half portion of the land which they have been living in since 2008. On the other half of the land, they have planted food crops and economic trees and have also put petty traders with kiosks and containers on the frontage of the land. It is this other half that the defendant has trespassed. The plaintiffs assert that until the defendant’s trespass, they had been in undisturbed possession of the land. The second plaintiff asserts that on or about the 29th day of November, 2016, the defendant brought some cement blocks ont...