KWAKU SARPONG (PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT) vs. DANSO AND ALAYEA (DEFENDANT/APPELLANT) [2010]DLCA7849

Date	2010-06-24
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. H1/97/2010
Citation No.	[2010]DLCA7849

AKAMBA J.A. (PRESIDING)

KUSI-APPIAH J.A.

V. OFOE J.A.

[2010]DLCA7849
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KWAKU SARPONG<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>DANSO AND
ALAYEA<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL
APPEAL NO. H1/97/2010&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; &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: 24TH JUNE, 2010<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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AKAMBA
J.A. (PRESIDING), KUSI-APPIAH J.A., V. OFOE J.A.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>KUSI-APPIAH, J.A.:&nbsp;
By his writ of summons in the Circuit Court, Accra, the
plaintiff/respondent (hereinafter called the Plaintiff) sued the
defendants/appellants (hereinafter simply called the Defendants) claiming the
following reliefs:<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Declaration
of title to the land describe (sic) in&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; paragraphs
3 of his statement of claim.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>(2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Declaration that the
Defendants are squatters.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>(3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order ejecting the
Defendants from the frontage of the Plaintiff’s land and the motorway. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>(4)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Injunction restraining the
Defendants, agents, workmen, assigns howsoever from dealing with the land at
the frontage of the plaintiff’s land pending final determination of the suit.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>(5)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Costs.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The facts relied on by the
parties to establish their respective claims were not complicated.&nbsp; The plaintiff’s case per his statement of
claim was that by a Deed of Assignment dated 18th October, 2001
bearing L.V.B. No. 4297/04 and AR/21319/2001 between Herman Adjei Annang the
assignor and he (Kweku Sarpong) the assignee, the land the subject matter of
this suit was conveyed to him for valuable consideration.&nbsp; According to him, the said land lying and
being at Akweteman, Accra in the Greater Accra Region containing an approximate
area of 0.16 Acre more or less and bounded on the North by the Assignor’s land
measuring 60 feet more or less on the East by assignor land measuring 120 feet
more or less on the South by proposed road (Abeka Lapaz Motorway) measuring 60
feet more or less and on the West by assignor’s land measuring 120 feet more or
less.&nbsp; The plaintiff averred that upon
the grant, he immediately went into possession and erected perimeter wall on
the three sides of his land.&nbsp; He
contended that the 1st defendant, a carpenter erected a shed and the
2nd defendant a motor mechanic placed a metal container on the
frontage of the plaintiff’s land thus denying the plaintiff complete access to
the main road.&nbsp; The plaintiff claimed
that the defendants’ structures on the land had no approval of the Accra
Metropolitan Assembly (hereinafter called “AMA”)
and therefore were illegally sited.&nbsp; He
alleged that all attempts by the plaintiff and AMA to persuade the defendants’
to remove their unauthorized structures have been unsuccessful, hence, the
institution of this action against the defendant.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>