DEDE KOSEY YOHUNU, ATTA KESENU YOHUNU vs ANNIE KUMAH AGBETI & 3 ORS [2008]DLHC16582

Date	2008-10-31
Suit No.	SUIT NO. AL 133/2006
Citation No.	[2008]DLHC16582

HIS LORDSHIP SAMUEL K. A. ASIEDU J

MARY OKPELOR

TAMAKLOE

ERNEST THOMPSON

MR. JOHN KLU

[2008]DLHC16582
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >DEDE KOSEY YOHUNU, ATTA KESENU YOHUNU<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>ANNIE KUMAH AGBETI &amp; 3 ORS<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: -0.35pt;">

<a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>SUIT
NO. AL 133/2006&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 31ST
OCTOBER, 2008<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>MARY OKPELOR
REPRESENTING DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT/APPLICANT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>TAMAKLOE REPRESENTING APPLICANTS/RESPONDENTS<o:p></o:p>ERNEST THOMPSON FOR 3RD DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT/APPLICANT<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

MR. JOHN KLU FOR APPLICANT/RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP SAMUEL K. A. ASIEDU J. <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: -0.35pt;">

RULING<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;The Plaintiffs herein issued a writ of summons
against the four defendants for reliefs endorsed on the writ.&nbsp; After the close of pleadings the parties and their
lawyers set down two of the issues raised in the application for directions to
be trial first.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Evidence was therefore taken in respect of those two
issues and the court differently constituted made a determination on those
issues.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;During the taking of evidence in respect of the
trial of the two issues set down by the Court a witness who is a member of the
family of the 3rd defendant’s family, gave evidence to the effect that in order
to protect the family property from being dissipated or lost, large parcels of
the family land have been given and registered in the names of 4 person as
trustees to hold the land in trust for the family and that those parcels of
land have not been sold to the said trustees.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Upon this revelation, the 3rd defendant
who is the head of the family applied ex-parte for an order of the Court upon
the 4th defendant to revoke and expunge from its records any
registered instrument in respect of Nmai Dzorn lands belongings to the Okpelor
Sowah Din family granted in favour of Theophilus Mensah, Yakubu Abdallah and
Nicholas Tawiah and any other registration deriving from the said registration.&nbsp; The court granted the application and made
the order accordingly.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Dissatisfied with the application and the consequent
order of the court which was dated the 22nd day of May, 2008,
trustees issued a writ in Suit No. BL. 457/2008 against the 3rd
defendant herein, the 4th defendant herein and Jacob Okpelor Mensah
and the Land Title Registry.&nbsp;
Subsequently, Suit No. BL. 457/2008 was settled by the parties and the 3rd
defendant herein agreed to cede certain parcels of land to the trustees in
accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding.&nbsp;
As a result another application, albeit, exparte was brought to this
court to vary the order of the court made on the 22nd May 2008.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Following from the
foregoing, Deccon Limited and four (4) other persons filed a motion on Notice
on the 4/7/2008 in this matter.&nbsp; Their
main reason for making or bringing this application is that they have acquired
various interest in the land which was being held in trust by the four trustees
and that being so, that interest and documents cannot be revoked and their
documents expunged from the records of the 4th defendant herein
without them being given a hearing first and foremost.&nbsp; The 3rd defendant filed an
affidavit in opposition to the application filed on the 4/7/2008.&nbsp; And on the 23/10/2008, the 3rd
defendant again filed a Motion on Notice for an Order of the court to strike
out and dismiss the application filed on the 4/7/2008 by Deccon Limited and the
4 others.&nbsp; Hence it is the application of
the 3rd defendant herein filed on the 23/10/2008 to which Deccon
Limited and the 4 others responded to by filing an affidavit in opposition that
is the subject of this ruling after listening to arguments and submissions by
counsel for the parties.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;From the evidence before
me I find that the respondents herein are complete strangers to this suit.&nbsp; This fact</main>