BRUTUW vs. AFERIBA AND ANOTHER [1980]DLHC2109

Date	1980-06-19
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1980]DLHC2109

OSEI-HWERE J.

EWUSIE-WILSON FOR THE PLAINTIFF.

J. B. SHORT FOR THE DEFENDANTS.

[1980]DLHC2109
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >BRUTUW <o:p></o:p>vs. <o:p></o:p>AFERIBA AND ANOTHER <o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, CAPE COAST]<o:p></o:p>[1982-83] GLR 464<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DATE:
19 JUNE 1980<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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EWUSIE-WILSON FOR THE PLAINTIFF.<o:p></o:p>

&nbsp;J. B. SHORT
FOR THE DEFENDANTS.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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OSEI-HWERE J.<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>JUDGMENT OF OSEI-HWERE J.<o:p></o:p>By the
indorsement on her writ the plaintiff’s claim against the defendants is for:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">“(a)
declaration setting aside the judgment of this honourable court dated 26 August
1975 and confirmed by the judgment of the Court of Appeal dated 16 June 1977 on
the ground of fraud.”<o:p></o:p>In her
twelve-paragraphed amended statement of claim the plaintiff made the following
averments:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;
mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">“(1) The plaintiff is the head of
family of Nana Effina Anona family of Yaayaakuano near Cape Coast in the
Central Region. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;
mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(2) The land, the subject-matter of
suit No. 15/70 entitled Kobena Amoasi, Odikro of Yaayaakuano for himself and on
behalf of Nana Effina Anona family of Yaayaakuano versus (1) Ebusuapanyin Effua
Aferiba, etc., etc. (2) Fawuhutwer of Yaayaakuano in which judgment was given
by the High Court, Cape Coast, on 26 August 1975, and same was confirmed by the
judgment of the Court of Appeal dated 16 June 1977, is the ancestral property
of the plaintiff’s family. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;
mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(3) The defendants for the purpose of
obtaining the judgments referred to in paragraph (2) above and which are sought
to be set aside in this action perpetrated gross and serious fraud on the High
Court of Justice.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">PARTICULARS
OF FRAUD<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;
mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(a) Manufacturing concrete pillars and
placing them on the land in dispute so as to represent that the said pillars
were placed on the land by the late John Mensah Sarbah Barrister-at-law, who
died in 1910 or otherwise by Mrs. Sarah Sarbah, the mother of John Mensah
Sarbah, Barrister-at-law, who died in 1917. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;
mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(b) Falsely claiming that the said John
Mensah Sarbah was succeeded by his mother Mrs. Sarah Sarbah when to the
knowledge of the defendants John Mensah Sarbah died leaving a will which was
admitted to probate. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;
mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(c) Falsely claiming that the land in
dispute belonged to John Mensah Sarbah when to the knowledge of the defendants
the land did not form part of the estate of John Mensah Sarbah, because by the
wills of John Mensah Sarbah, Eva Nancy Sarbah, Mrs Gwira and a trust deed, the
estate of John Mensah and his mother Sarah Sarbah eventually passed into the
hands of Sarah Wilhemina Adjoa Williams, nee Taylor and after her death to her
lawfully wedded husband under the Ordinance—Mr. Kobena Aaba Taylor who sold all
the properties in the said estate without any opposition from the defendants or
from any other members of their family. And that if the land in dispute formed
part of the said estate it would also have been sold. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;
mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(d) Falsely stating that Fawuhutwer,
the second defendant, has lived at Yaayaakuano village for over 80 years when
the defendants well knew that the said Fawuhutwer has for a greater part of his
life lived at Wanyaito village, and moved to live a Yaayaakuano only when the
first action started. <o:p></o:p>