PERRY KING ACHEAMFOUR ALIAS KWABENA ACHEAMFOUR vs. OBAAPANIN HUAHI TUTUWAA II [2013]DLHC8226

Date	2013-11-26
Suit No.	C1\|267\|07
Citation No.	[2013]DLHC8226

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE JACOB B. BOON

KWABENA POKU MENSAH FOR PLAINTIFF

MARIAM GYASI JAWHRAY FOR DEFENDANT

[2013]DLHC8226
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >PERRY KING
ACHEAMFOUR ALIAS KWABENA ACHEAMFOUR<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>OBAAPANIN
HUAHI TUTUWAA II<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[HIGH COURT, KUMASI]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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C1|267|07&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE: 26TH
NOVEMBER, 2013<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>KWABENA
POKU MENSAH FOR PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MARIAM
GYASI JAWHRAY FOR DEFENDANT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <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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LORDSHIP JUSTICE JACOB B. BOON<o:p></o:p>

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</div>By his amended writ
of summons issued from the Registry of this court on 27th May, 2010
the plaintiff, a retired Engineer claimed (a) declaration that the defendant
with full knowledge of an encumbrance on Plot No. 10 Block X, Boadi-Kumasi
purported to allocate it to him which conduct is unlawful, fraudulent and
illegal, (b) general, special, punitive and exemplary damages for defendant’s
fraudulent and unlawful conduct. The defendant is the occupant of Huahi Stool.
The stool is the customary owner of the lands where the disputed plot is
situated. The case of the plaintiff is clearly stated in paragraphs 3 to 15 of
his pleadings as follows:<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>“3. The plaintiff states that the defendant allocated a
plot known as Plot 10 Block X, Boadi-Kumasi to him which plot turned out to be,
to the knowledge of the defendant, the subject of an earlier grant to another
person.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>4. The plaintiff states that the defendant demanded and
received an amount of $5,000.00 for the said fraudulent allocation of the said
plot and duly issued a site plan and allocation paper in respect of same.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>5. The plaintiff states that upon the fraudulent
allocation to him, which fraud was then not known to him, and had in any event
been concealed by the defendant, he proceeded to spent (sic) a colossal amount
of money processing the documentation covering same of the Lands Commission
Secretariat in Kumasi and the Asantehene’s Lands Secretariat spending an amount
of $2,500.00 in the process.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>6. The plaintiff states that he later discovered that the
said plot is the subject of an allocation made to one Joseph Mensah Bonsu.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>7. The plaintiff states that when he brought the
fraudulent conduct of the defendant to her notice, the defendant pleaded with
the plaintiff not to assert his legal right and purported to replace the land
with another one described as plot No. 30 Block N Boadi-Kumasi.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>8. The plaintiff states that he proceeded to make the
said second plot ready for development only to be thwarted by someone who was
in truth the owner of same having been allocated same by the defendant much
earlier.<o:p></o:p>