ALFRED K. ADICKAH (PLAINTIFF) vs. VICENTIA AWUSHIE (DEFENDANT) [2010]DLHC7516

Date	2010-06-25
Suit No.	SUIT NO. BFA.77/2008
Citation No.	[2010]DLHC7516

MR. JUSTICE PATRICK BAAYEH J.

AGOHAVIE BEDIE HOLDING BRIEF FOR GAYLORD KEMEVOR FOR DEFENDANT.

DANIEL OFFEI HOLDING BRIEF FOR SETH SAM WOOD FOR PLAINTIFF.

[2010]DLHC7516
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ALFRED K. ADICKAH<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>VICENTIA AWUSHIE<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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JUNE, 2010<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>AGOHAVIE
BEDIE HOLDING BRIEF FOR GAYLORD KEMEVOR FOR DEFENDANT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DANIEL OFFEI HOLDING BRIEF FOR SETH SAM
WOOD FOR PLAINTIFF.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>MR.
JUSTICE PATRICK BAAYEH, J. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>Plaintiff filed this suit on
23/5/08 against defendant claiming;<o:p></o:p>i.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Declaration that House No. 38 – 203 Tabora,
Accra was a joint matrimonial home. <o:p></o:p>ii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;Injunction restraining the defendant from
renting rooms in the said house for her exclusive use until the suit has been
finally determined. <o:p></o:p>iii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;Costs.
<o:p></o:p>The case of the plaintiff per his statement
of claim is that he and defendant were once a married couple but now divorced.
That he and defendant jointly owned House No. 36 203 Tabora, Accra which was
their matrimonial home until their divorce. Plaintiff pleaded further that
although the house is jointly owed by plaintiff and defendant his contribution
far exceeded that of the defendant. That for a long time defendant was
unemployed and that in the course of their divorce proceedings plaintiff
resisted defendant’s application for the removal of the plaintiff from the
matrimonial home but the judge advised that he vacates the matrimonial home and
institute a civil action to claim joint ownership of the house. <o:p></o:p>Defendant on her part denied plaintiff’s claim and
pleaded in her amended statement of defence filed on 23/7/08 that she single
handedly bought 2 plots of land in 1982, one at Tabora No. 6 and the other at
Tabora Scorpion from Nii Okai Chief of Darkuman for ¢5,000 each. That in the
case of the first plot she went in the company of plaintiff and asked the
landowners to prepare the site plan in the joint names of Mr. and Mrs. Adickah
but in the case of the second plot she did not involve plaintiff and took the
site plan in her sole name.<o:p></o:p>She pleaded further that she
gave the first plot to plaintiff to build on but he failed to do so and the
land was subsequently resold by the Darkuman Chief’s brothers. She apparently
built on the second plot and that is where House No. 36-203 now stands.
Defendant pleaded further that she first built 4 chamber and halls on the land
before they moved from Mataheko to occupy the house and thereafter she took
advance from prospective tenants who prefinanced the rest of the construction
and now the house is made up of 5 chamber and halls and 9 single rooms. That
she built the house from her own resources and with assistance from her sisters
living in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. She denied that she was unemployed for most of
the time but that she worked at Asanteman Distilleries from 1978 to 1995 and
rose to the rank of factory supervisor. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Defendant counterclaimed
for; <o:p></o:p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A declaration that House No. 36 203 Tabora,
Accra is the property of defendant and not a joint property. <o:p></o:p>b.<s</main>