ARMAR NMAI BOI AND OTHERS vs. ADJETEY ADJEI AND OTHERS [2014]DLSC2874

Date	2014-03-19
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/8/2013
Citation No.	[2014]DLSC2874

ATUGUBA JSC (PRESIDING)

ADINYIRA (MRS) JSC

YEBOAH JSC

GBADEGBE JSC

AKOTO-BAMFO (MRS) JSC

S. K. AMOAH FOR THE DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS/ APPELLANTS.

SAM SETH WOOD FOR THE PLAINTIFFS /RESPONDENTS/RESPONDENTS.

[2014]DLSC2874
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ARMAR NMAI BOI AND
OTHERS<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>ADJETEY ADJEI AND OTHERS<o:p></o:p>[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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APPEAL NO. J4/8/2013&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE: 19TH
MARCH, 2014<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>S. K. AMOAH FOR THE DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS/
APPELLANTS.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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&nbsp;SAM SETH WOOD FOR THE&nbsp;&nbsp; PLAINTIFFS /RESPONDENTS/RESPONDENTS.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM: <o:p></o:p>ATUGUBA JSC (PRESIDING), ADINYIRA (MRS) JSC, YEBOAH JSC, GBADEGBE JSC, AKOTO-BAMFO
(MRS) JSC<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>SOPHIA
ADINYIRA (MRS.) JSC:<o:p></o:p>This is an appeal from the judgment of the Court of
Appeal, Accra dated 16 February2012. The Plaintiffs/Respondent /Respondent
(Plaintiffs), began an action before The High Court Accra on 17 May 2007,
against the Defendants/Appellants/Appellants (Defendants) jointly and severally
for the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A
declaration of title to all that piece or parcel of land situate lying and
being at North Teshie and bounded on the North by one Mr. A. Laryea’s land
measuring 900 feet more or less on the South by A. Kanton’s land measuring 900
feet more or less on the East by the Vendor’s land measuring 400 feet more or
less and on the Westby the Vendor’s landmeasuring 900 feet more or less and
covering an approximate area of 8.2 Acres.<o:p></o:p>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Recovery of possession<o:p></o:p>c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Damages for trespass<o:p></o:p>d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Perpetual
injunction restraining the Defendants, their servants, agents, workmen and all
those claiming through them from entering on to the land in dispute and
carrying out any construction works on the land or interfering with the land in
dispute in any manner whatsoever.<o:p></o:p>The Plaintiffs by their pleadings
claimed that the land in dispute was acquired in their names by their late
father in 1961 from Nii Klu Din the then acting Mankrado of Teshie and an
indenture evidencing the sale was executed and registered as No. 3825/1985.
They claimed they entered into possession and exercised acts of ownership over
the land by fixing corner pillars and constantly weeding it and warding off
trespassers. <o:p></o:p>The Plaintiffs stated further that
they applied for and obtained a Land Title Certificate from the Lands Title
Registry in 2007. They allege the Defendants have wrongfully entered portions
of the land and have put up unauthorized structures and have refused to quit.<o:p></o:p>The Defendants denied the claim and
countered that the land could not have been purchased in 1961 in the
Plaintiffs’ name as two of them were minors and one was unborn then. The
Defendants claimed they acquired their lands from the Tsie We Family of the Kle
Musum Quarter and they have been in undisturbed possession for periods over 12
years as a result the Plaintiff action was not maintainable by reason of laches
and acquiescence and the Limitation Decree, NRCD 54.They also pleaded that the
Land Title Certificate was obtained by fraud and mistake.<o:p></o:p>The Plaintiffs in their Reply filed on
12 December 2007 stated in paragraph 4 that their late father sued the
Defendants before the elders of the Kle Musum Quarter and then before the CDR
in 1981 and in all these cases it was found that the Defendants have trespassed
on their land. <o:p></o:p>The High Court upheld</main>