[2024]DLHC18120March 14, 2024High Court

JOSEPH KODWO APPEADU-SIAW vs. WILLIAM KWASI BOAKYE SIAW.

R U L I N G Before me is an application by the Plaintiff herein after called “The Applicant” for Stay of Execution of the Judgment of this Court, differently constituted, rendered in favour of the Defendant/Counterclaimant referred to as “The Respondent”. According to the Applicant, the Respondent and his thugs went onto the land on the same day Judgment was delivered to demolish the frontage of the property as well as the signees of the restaurant of the Applicant. Applicant claims he had lived on the disputed property for forty (40) years and has sentimental attachments to it. In effect, it is his matrimonial home. The application was opposed by Counsel for the Respondent. The Applicant blames the Respondent for brazenly constructing metal sheet wall across the frontage of the house. In the absence of an Order for Stay of Execution, I wonder how a Judgment Creditor undertaking that action to protect the property he had obtained Judgment over be considered to be acting ...