ENNIN vs. AMPAH AND OTHERS [1980]DLHC2121

Date	1980-06-12
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1980]DLHC2121

OSEI-HWERE J.

E. F. SHORT FOR THE PLAINTIFF-APPLICANT.

BRODIE-MENDS FOR THE DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS.

[1980]DLHC2121
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ENNIN <o:p></o:p>vs. <o:p></o:p>AMPAH AND OTHERS <o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, CAPE COAST]<o:p></o:p>[1982-83] GLR 952<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DATE:
12 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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E. F. SHORT FOR THE PLAINTIFF-APPLICANT. <o:p></o:p>

BRODIE-MENDS FOR THE DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS.<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>The
plaintiff has brought his motion praying the court for an order of interim
injunction against the defendants restraining them from entering the top floor
of house No. F.9/1, Aboom Road, Cape Coast, and in particular the room of the
deceased until the final determination of the suit. This motion is the sequel
to an order made by this court restraining the plaintiff and members of his
family from doing anything to change the character of the building by tampering
with locks and other fittings of the house. By his affidavit in support, the
plaintiff complains that the defendants have taken advantage to do the very
thing prohibited of them. The affidavit goes on to make the following
complaints:<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">“5. That
about two weeks ago the defendants broke the lock of the hall of the house and
installed a new one without the consent of any one. <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">6. That
two days ago the second defendant and her son entered the room of the deceased.
The second defendant and her son ransacked the room of the deceased. <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">7. That
while the first defendant lives in the bottom floor of the house, the remaining
defendants do not live in the house at all. 8. That neither the first defendant
nor the remaining defendants have any business on the top floor which is
occupied by their sister, Mrs. Agnes Abban. <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">9. That
the defendants are presently not on speaking terms with the said Agnes Abban
who is a member of the deceased family. <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">10. That
there is tension in the house between the defendants, particularly the first
defendant and the said Agnes Abban and the tension is aggravated from time to
time by the defendants’ forcible entry into the rooms of the top floor where
Agnes Abban lives. <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">11. That
if the defendants are not restrained from intermeddling with the estate of the
deceased by constantly ransacking his room, and if they are not restrained from
making further incursions into the rooms of the top floor, the situation will
explode in no time. <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">12. That
the defendants have nothing to lose if they are restrained from entering the
room of the deceased or the top floor.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In their
affidavit in reply, the defendants say that the house in dispute is not only
the subject of the bequest to them by “samansew”, as pleaded, but that they
hold letters of administration with the “samansew” annexed from the High Court.
They deny that they were the cause of any tension between them and their
sister, Mrs. Abban, and point out that although the order for interim
injunction operates against the plaintiff, when recently rain-water seeped
through the wooden floor of their father’s room to the room of the first
defendant below and she wanted to take remedial steps, they wrote to the
plaintiff with regard to the remedial steps, they intended. They complained
that it was rather their said sister who, after they had placed a lock on the
door of their father’s room under police supervision, unreasonably placed a
latch with a padlock above the lock, and that all that the second defendant did
was to remove the latch and padlock introduced by Mrs. Abban. The plaintiff
himself has no business in the house as his family house is low at Bentsir.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
possession by the defendants of letters of administration with the “samansew”
annexed — certainly has overriding effect in this application. It is well known
that an administra</main>