NANA AMUA GYEBU XV vs. MONDIAL VENEER (GH) LTD [2010]DLSC2519

Date	2010-08-11
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/31/2010
Citation No.	[2010]DLSC2519

WOOD (MRS) CJ (PRESIDING)

BROBBEY JSC

DOTSE JSC

YEBOAH JSC

ARYEETEY JSC

SAMUEL DZIGBA FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT.

JOHN MERCER FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT

[2010]DLSC2519
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >NANA AMUA GYEBU
XV<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MONDIAL VENEER (GH) LTD<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[SUPREME 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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CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/31/2010&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;DATE: 11TH
AUGUST, 2010<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>SAMUEL
DZIGBA FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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JOHN MERCER FOR THE
PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT<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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(MRS) CJ (PRESIDING), BROBBEY JSC, DOTSE JSC, YEBOAH JSC, ARYEETEY JSC<o:p></o:p>

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JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>WOOD
(MRS), CJ:-<o:p></o:p>On the 28th
July 2010, we, as the second appellate court, dismissed the appeal against the
judgment of the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) dated 23rd July,
2009, and reserved our reasons for coming to that conclusion. We state those
reasons now. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p>Because the
facts leading to the commencement of the original action are indeed very
simple, the issues of fact or law that arose for determination in the two lower
courts and indeed in this court cannot by any stretch of imagination be
described as complex. In 1993, the late Nana Amuah Gyebi XIV of Apowa, the
predecessor of the Plaintiff/Respondent/Respondent (Respondent) respondent,
acting with his elders, granted a 61 acre piece of stool land to the appellant
company. However, according to the respondent, after his enstoolment in 2001 as
Chief of Apowa, he discovered to his utter dismay that Defendant/Appellant/Appellant
(Appellant), had encroached on an additional 29 acres of land and was in the
process of constructing a wall around this tract of land. When challenged, appellant
claimed that they purchased this additional 29 acres from the grantor chief,
the respondent’s predecessor. Dissatisfied with appellant’s conduct, the
respondent caused a writ of summons to be issued against the appellant company for
the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Declaration of title to all the pieces or
parcel of land measuring approximately 29 acres situate and lying at Apowa
Industrial Area, and contiguous to a 61 acre land granted by the plaintiff’s
stool to the defendant company in or about September, 1993<o:p></o:p>(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Recovery of possession of the said 29 acre
land<o:p></o:p>(iii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;General
and special damages for trespass<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Perpetual
injunction restraining the defendant either by itself or its servants, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;agents, workmen, assigns privies
etc. from interfering howsoever with the said land.<o:p></o:p>After a full
trial, the learned trial Judge gave judgment in favour of the respondent, a
decision which was substantially confirmed on appeal, the only variation being
a reduction of the general damages and costs awarded from GH¢40,000 &nbsp;and GH¢10,000 respectively, to twenty thousan</main>