REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT, DENU; EX PARTE AVADALI IV [1993]DLSC851

Date	1993-12-14
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1993]DLSC851

ADADE JSC

ABBAN JSC

AMUA-SEKYI JSC

EDWARD WIREDU JSC

BAMFORD-ADDO JSC

CHARLES HAYFRON-BENJAMIN JSC

AMPIAH JSC

ERIC HOMADI (WITH HIM FRANCIS AMPOFO BEKOE AND S M AKRONG) FOR THE APPLICANT.

S A X TSEGAH FOR THE RESPONDENTS.

[1993]DLSC851
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
color:#00B0F0">REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
color:#00B0F0">HIGH COURT, DENU; EX PARTE AVADALI IV<o:p></o:p>[SUPREME COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>[1993-94] 1 GLR 561<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;text-align:right;
mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">Date: 14
December 1993<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>ERIC HOMADI (WITH HIM FRANCIS AMPOFO BEKOE AND S M AKRONG) FOR THE
APPLICANT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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S A X TSEGAH FOR THE RESPONDENTS. <o:p></o:p>

ADADE, ABBAN, AMUA-SEKYI, EDWARD WIREDU, BAMFORD-ADDO, CHARLES
HAYFRON-BENJAMIN AND AMPIAH JJSC<o:p></o:p>

</div>JUDGMENT OF ADADE JSC.<o:p></o:p>On 16 November 1992 an action was commenced in the High Court,
Denu titled as follows:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo12;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(1)&nbsp;&nbsp; “Hlotator Adigbli Avadali II
of Afegame, head of Anyigbe clan family. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo12;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes">(2)&nbsp;&nbsp;
Togbe Awafiaga Abordor VII, principal member of Anyigbe clan and
divisional chief of Anyigbe Afegame Togbui Lugu Avadali IV (alias Awafia Lugu
Ahiaku) sub-chief of Anyigbe Afevime Adutor”<o:p></o:p>By their writ of summons, the plaintiffs sought three reliefs:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo13;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(a).&nbsp; “A declaration that the first
plaintiff is the present head/hlotator of the whole Anyigbe clan or family
comprising Anyigbe Afegame, Anyigbe Afevime and Agbofeme of Anyigbe clan and is
entitled to manage all the lands and other properties of the Anyigbe clan
family. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo13;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(b).&nbsp; A perpetual prohibitive
injunction restraining the defendant from posing or claiming to be the
head/hlotator of the Anyigbe clan and dealing with the properties of the
Anyigbe clan in the said false capacity. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo13;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes">(c).&nbsp;
General damages suffered by the plaintiffs as a result of the
false claims of the defendant as head/hlotator of the whole Anyigbe clan.”<o:p></o:p>The writ was accompanied by a statement of claim running into
fifteen paragraphs.<o:p></o:p>On receiving the writ and the statement of claim the defendant, by
his solicitor, entered a conditional appearance and then moved the court “to
strike off the writ of summons and the statement of claim” on the ground, as
stated in paragraph (4) of his affidavit of 7 December 1992:<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">“(4) That though the action has been cleverly couched in words to
sound like a land case</main>