[2019]DLHC8780February 6, 2019High Court

ELIZABETH SARPONG AND PRINCE PERBY vs. MOSES BORTIER , JOHN BORKWEI AND SHASHA BORLABIE

According to the Statement of Claim filed together with the Writ of Summons on 5th February 2015, Plaintiffs acquired two plots of land, the size of which was stated as 0.36 acre from Tete Pa Ogya Agona family of Adamorobe sometime in 2007 and went into immediate possession by clearing the said land and also putting up a five-bedroom foundation as well as a single room with water tank on the land. The Plaintiffs averred that they plotted their interest in the land at the Lands Commission and have remained in undisturbed possession from that time until Defendants trespassed on the land in 2014. The trespass took the form of demolishing Plaintiffs’ five-bedroom foundation but left one room structure and other building structures on the land untouched amid protests which culminated in a complaint to the police. Finding themselves in this circumstance, Plaintiffs were constrained to cause the Writ of Summons to issue wherein by way of reliefs Plaintiffs sought declaration of title .....