MARGARET OSEI ASSIBEY vs. JOYCE GBOMITTAH, KWABENA ADOMAKO AND COMMANDER GODWIN EDWARD OSEI [2012]DLSC2594

MARGARET OSEI ASSIBEY vs. JOYCE GBOMITTAH, KWABENA ADOMAKO AND COMMANDER GODWIN... [2012]DLSC2594

Date	2012-04-25
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/51/2011
Citation No.	[2012]DLSC2594

AKUFFO (MS) JSC (PRESIDING)

DATE-BAH JSC

ANSAH JSC

BONNIE JSC

BAMFO (MRS) JSC

HANSEN K. KODUA FOR THE APPELLANT

KWAKU YEBOAH FOR THE RESPONDENTS

[2012]DLSC2594
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MARGARET OSEI ASSIBEY<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>JOYCE GBOMITTAH, KWABENA
ADOMAKO AND COMMANDER GODWIN EDWARD OSEI<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. J4/51/2011&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;DATE:
25TH
APRIL, 2012<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&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; <o:p></o:p>HANSEN K. KODUA&nbsp; FOR THE APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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KWAKU
YEBOAH FOR THE RESPONDENTS <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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AKUFFO (MS) JSC (PRESIDING), DATE-BAH JSC, ANSAH
JSC, BONNIE JSC, BAMFO (MRS) JSC<o:p></o:p>

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

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>SOPHIA.
A. B. AKUFFO (MS),J.S.C<o:p></o:p>Background<o:p></o:p>This is an appeal from the decision of the
Court of Appeal, Kumasi, dated 17th December 2010, affirming the
judgement of the High Court, Kumasi. It worth noting that although on the cover
of the Record of Proceedings as well as in the statements of case respectively
filed by both counsel for the parties herein one gathers, from the title of the
case, an impression that there are three Respondents, it is evident from the
Notice of Appeal in this Court that the sole Respondent herein is Commander G.
E. Osei, who had been Co-Defendant at the trial of the matter. In this
judgment, therefore, he will be referred to as the Respondent and his
co-defendants at the high court will be referred as the 1st and 2nd
Defendants.<o:p></o:p>Now, the brief background of the appeal is
that, by a writ of Summons issued on 22nd January 2001, the
Appellant herein sued the 1st and 2nd Defendants in the
High Court, Kumasi, claiming:-<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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Declaration of title to H/No. 461, Kwadaso
Estate, Kumasi<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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Recovery of possession<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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Damages for trespass<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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Perpetual injunction restraining the defendants,
their servants and or workmen and agents from in any way interfering with
Plaintiff’s possession of the property.<o:p></o:p>Subsequently,
the Respondent, upon his own application, was joined in the suit as a
Co-Defendant.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>