JOHN TETTEH PARDIE TSOKPOR vs. QUARSHIE NYARKO, AHMED SALEM PARDIE, KPES CONSTRUCTION LTD AND EBENEZER PILEI PARDIE [2014]DLCA5108

JOHN TETTEH PARDIE TSOKPOR vs. QUARSHIE NYARKO, AHMED SALEM PARDIE, KPES CONSTR... [2014]DLCA5108

Date	2014-04-03
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. H1/18/2014
Citation No.	[2014]DLCA5108

MARFUL- SAU JA (PRESIDING)

ACQUAYE JA

MARGARET WELBOURNE JA

GEORGE ABORGAH FOR THE 2ND & 3RD DEFENDANTS /APPELLANTS

BABA AVIO FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

[2014]DLCA5108
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >JOHN TETTEH PARDIE
TSOKPOR<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>QUARSHIE NYARKO, AHMED
SALEM PARDIE, KPES CONSTRUCTION LTD AND EBENEZER PILEI PARDIE<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS)<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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padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">CIVIL APPEAL NO.
H1/18/2014&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: 3RD
APRIL, 2014<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>GEORGE ABORGAH FOR THE 2ND
&amp; 3RD DEFENDANTS /APPELLANTS<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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BABA
AVIO FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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MARFUL-
SAU JA (PRESIDING), ACQUAYE JA, MARGARET WELBOURNE JA<o:p></o:p>

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JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>MARFUL- SAU, JA: <o:p></o:p>This is an appeal against
the ruling of the High Court sitting at Tema and dated the 30th
August 2013.&nbsp; In the said ruling the
trial High Court granted an application for interlocutory injunction filed by
the Plaintiff/Respondent on the 14th June 2013 and found at page 127
of the record of appeal.&nbsp; In granting the
application the trial court ordered at page 201 thus:<o:p></o:p>“It is ordered that each
party to the suit by themselves, their assigns, workers, privies etc be
restrained from developing, selling, constructing or engaging in any economic
activity on the land.”<o:p></o:p>Dissatisfied with the
ruling the 2nd and 3rd Defendant/Appellants have appealed
to this court relying on the following grounds;-<o:p></o:p>“(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The ruling is against the weight of
evidence <o:p></o:p>(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The trial court erred when it granted the
order of interlocutory injunction restraining the 2nd and 3rd
defendants from quiet enjoyment of the parcel of land situate, lying and being
at Abbekorpe between Dawhenya and Afienya covering an approximate area of 250.1
acres in violation of the order of quiet enjoyment and perpetual injunction
granted in favour of the 2nd and 3rd defendants against
the Plaintiff’s family in the judgment dated 13th December 2007 in
suit No. AC 158/2006 titled Abraham Tetteh Pardie &amp; Another Vrs Abraham
Tetteh Kuntor Konortey &amp; 7 Others.<o:p></o:p>(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The trial court did not give adequate
consideration to the 2nd and 3rd defendants’ case.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>The brief facts of the
case are that the Plaintiff herein referred to as respondent issued a writ of
summons at the High Court, Tema, claiming the following:<o:p></o:p>(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Declaration that the plaintiff family is
the owner of the land described in paragraph 13 of the statement of claim.<o:p></o:p>(b)
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Damages for trespass<o:p></o:p>(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Recovery of possession<o:p></o:p>(d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Perpetual injunction<o:p></o:p>The suit originally had
two defendants namely Quarshie Nyarko and Ahmed Salem.&nbsp; During the pendency of the suit the 3rd
defendant KPES Construction Co. Ltd and the 4th defendant Ebenezer
Pilei Pardie applied and were joined to the suit. &nbsp;In his statement of claim the respondent
pleaded that he was the head of Narh Tsokpor family of Abbekorpe and that the
action was on behalf of the family.&nbsp; The
respondent further pleaded that his family was part of the Block Wem branch of
the Ablewankpor clan of Prampram, who were the allodial owners of the land in
dispute. &nbsp;The defendants were described
as persons who have purportedly taken grants of respondent’s family land and destroying
the properties of respondents.<o:p></o:p>The 2nd and 3rd
defendants/appellants herein to be called appellants on the other hand relied
on a judgment of the High Court in suit No. AC 158/2006 dated the 13th
December 2007 which confirmed a grant of 250.1 acres of land to them by the
Ablewankpor clan.<o:p></o:p>