[2009]DLHC16613 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; color:#00B0F0">UNIQUE ESTATES LIMITED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; color:#00B0F0">ADJORKOR OKPELOR SOWAH & 4 ORS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops: 168.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO. AL 202/2008 DATE: 31<sup>ST</sup> JULY 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">COUNSEL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">YAW ADJEI AFRAM FOR S. K. AMOAH FOR PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">KWAME AMOAKO FOR 1ST, 3RD, 4TH & 5TH DEFENDANTS<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">CORAM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">HIS LORDSHIP SAMUEL K. A. ASIEDU J. <o:p></o:p></span></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">By an amended writ of summons, the Plaintiff claims against the Defendants herein:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <i>“1. A declaration that by an indenture dated 7<sup>th</sup> February, 2006 made between Nii Okpelor Ablor Mensah and the plaintiff, the Numo Sowah Din Okpelor family of Teshie Accra granted a leasehold of its land situate at Nmai Dzorn, Accra and described in the said indenture to the plaintiff.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> 2. Recovery of possession of the land referred to in relief 1 from the 1<sup>st</sup>, 2<sup>nd</sup>, 3<sup>rd</sup>, and 5<sup>th</sup> defendants.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> 3. Damages for trespass against the 1<sup>st</sup>, 2<sup>nd</sup>, 3<sup>rd</sup>, and 5<sup>th</sup> defendants<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> 4. Perpetual injunction against the 1<sup>st</sup>, 2<sup>nd</sup>, 3<sup>rd</sup> and 5<sup>th</sup> defendants their agents, servants and assigns from further trespassing on the land in dispute or in any way disturbing the plaintiff’s quiet enjoyment of same.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> 5. General damages against the 4<sup>th</sup> defendant for (breach of contract) failure to render services for which he was engaged and paid.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">6 (a). An order directed at the chief registrar of lands to cancel the defendant’s land certificate No. TD 1007 in the land registrar volume 019 folio 418.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> IN THE ALTERNATIVE<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.35pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> 6 (b). An orde