[2023]DLCA17746February 22, 2023Court of Appeal

ALHAJI ISMAIL ABUBAKAR vs. ENOCH FRANCIS ANNAN TETTEH

JUDGMENT SOWAH, J.A.: Introduction This is an interlocutory appeal by the defendant/appellant against the decision of the High Court, Land Division, Accra dated 17th December 2021 which granted an application for interlocutory injunction brought by the plaintiff/respondent. The Ruling on appeal is at pages 161-166 of the record of appeal. The parties will hereafter be called by their designations at the trial court. Background Facts In the writ of summons and statement of claim of the Plaintiff, he sued for and on behalf of the Okpon We family of Dzornaman and Teshie as owner of 603.51 acres of land. The plaintiff pleaded a Statutory Declaration made on 8th January 1979 and a judgment of the High Court obtained on 25th March 2011 over a portion of the land covered by the Statutory Declaration and had been put in possession with the assistance of the Deputy Sheriff. The writ of summons against the defendant/appellant was however for declaration of title to an area 0.46 acres...