NII KOTEY AMLI III vs. KOTEI DZANIE, ALHASSAN IDDRIS LARI AND WILLIAM ADODOADJI

The Plaintiff, Nii Kotey Amli III, is the head and the lawful representative of the La Klannaa Quarter. By a number of judgments emanating from the Circuit Court, High Court and Court of Appeal, the said Quarter, according to the Plaintiff, has been adjudged the owner of La Bawaleshie-Otele lands, also known as, East-Legon. By a lease dated 25th November 2002, the Plaintiff’s family granted a parcel of land situate at Otele to the 1st Defendant for a term of fifty (50) years. The Plaintiff claims that, without his family’s consent, the 3rd Defendant has assigned his interest in the land in dispute to the 2nd Defendant and the 2nd Defendant has also put up a storey building on the land in dispute, which is being occupied by the 3rd Defendant. Plaintiff maintains that the purported assignment of the land in dispute by 1st Defendant to the 2nd Defendant is a nullity as the consent of his family was not sought before the transaction. He therefore alleges that the presence of the 2nd an...