MRS SUSAN BARTELS vs. INTERNATIONAL CENTRAL GOSPEL CHURCH

MERLEY A. WOOD, J.A In this interlocutory appeal against the ruling of the High Court, Land Division, Accra, delivered on 10th January, 2019, the 4th Defendant/Appellant seeks the setting aside of the aforesaid ruling. The matters that have given rise to the interlocutory appeal are as follows: The Plaintiff/Respondent (hereafter referred to as the Plaintiff or alternately as the Respondent) on 18th July 1996 sued out a Writ of Summons and a Statement of Claim against three Defendants namely Emmanuel Amewowoh, Frank Folly and Anthony Agbenu for a declaration that the Plaintiff is the bona fide lessee of the Government of Ghana in respect of the land in dispute among other reliefs. The 4th Defendant/Appellant applied to join the suit as a defendant and same was granted joining her as Co-Defendant on 20th January 1997. The Plaintiff applied to join the Lands Commission as 2nd Co-Defendant and same was granted on 20th June 2011. The Plaintiff per an Amended Writ of Summons and Amen...