MRS ELIZABETH OSEI (SUBSTITUTED BY PORTIA GILLARD) vs. MADAM ALICE AFUA KORANG [2011]DLCA7936

Date	2011-04-07
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO.: H1/186/09
Citation No.	[2011]DLCA7936

KANYOKE J.A. (PRESIDING)

AYEBI J.A.

DZAMEFE J.A.

[2011]DLCA7936
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MRS ELIZABETH
OSEI (SUBSTITUTED BY PORTIA GILLARD)<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>MADAM ALICE AFUA KORANG<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.:&nbsp; H1/186/09&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 7TH
APRIL, 2011<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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KANYOKE
J.A. (PRESIDING), AYEBI J.A., DZAMEFE J.A.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>AYEBI J.A.<o:p></o:p>This is an appeal from the judgment of the High
Court, Accra dated 8th April 2005.&nbsp;
The appellant was the defendant at the trial court whiles the respondent
was the plaintiff.&nbsp; The
plaintiff/respondent is the widow of the deceased son of the defendant/appellant.&nbsp; The suit is therefore a contest between a
daughter-in-law and a mother-in-law over H/No. B/208, Anya Onyinase Kokoroko,
New Gbawe.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The reliefs plaintiff/respondent claimed at the
trial court are:<o:p></o:p>(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;
That
the defendant/appellant be restrained from removing her from her matrimonial
home,<o:p></o:p>(b)&nbsp; A declaration that the matrimonial home situate at
No. B/208, Anya Onyinase Kokoroko, New Gbawe was built by her late husband.<o:p></o:p>The case put forward by the plaintiff/respondent
in support of her claim is that she got married to Stephen Kwame Osei, son of
the defendant/appellant in 1990 under the Ordinance.&nbsp; In the course of the marriage the husband put
up the house.&nbsp; The husband however died
in 2000.&nbsp; After his death,
defendant/appellant who was living somewhere moved into her matrimonial home
and started claiming ownership of the house built by her husband and herself
during the course of the marriage.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Defendant/appellant denied the claim of ownership
of the plaintiff/respondent.&nbsp; She averred
that her relocation to the house was arranged with her deceased son, an
arrangement which the plaintiff/respondent was aware of long before the death
of her son.&nbsp; Defendant/appellant asserted
that the house is her self-acquired property, the construction of which started
in 1987 and was completed by 1989 long before her late son married the
plaintiff/respondent.&nbsp;
Defendant/appellant maintained she allowed her late son to occupy the
house as a licensee.&nbsp; She thus
counter-claimed for:<o:p></o:p>(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;
A
declaration that defendant is the owner of H/No. B/208, Anya Onyinase Kokoroko
by virtue of her having used her own money to purchase the land on which she
had used her own resources to construct a one storey building with an outhouse
thereon.<o:p></o:p>(b)&nbsp;