[2020]DLCA9859October 29, 2020Court of Appeal

IBRAHIM MUSAH vs. BEATRICE ASAMOAH YEBOAH AND OBIRI BAFFOUR GABRIEL

JUDGMENT OF S.K.A. ASIEDU, JA. This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Sunyani, delivered on the 4th July 2016. The Plaintiff/Appellant sued the Defendants/Respondents for a declaration of title to a parcel of land situate and lying at Dormaa Ahenkro in the then Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. The Plaintiff/Appellant also prayed the High Court for Perpetual Injunction and General damages for trespass unto his land. The Plaintiff/Appellant says that he acquired the parcel of land from one Kwadwo Anane Yeboah in 2013 with the intention of constructing a Fuel Station on the said land. Hitherto, the said Kwadwo Anane Yeboah, who had been in occupation of the parcel of land for well over twenty years prior to the sale of the land, had used same also as a Fuel Station which was not operational at the time he disposed of it. The Plaintiff says that he caused sand to be deposited unto the land after its acquisition. Upon a visit to the land, the Plaintiff/Appellant found that t...