[2015]DLHC16733 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">F.K.A COMPANY LTD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">MR OWUSU ANSAH & 4 ORS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:168.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO. SOL 73/2015 DATE: 27<sup>TH</sup> NOVEMBER, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">COUNSEL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">IRENE MARIA QUARSHIE FOR NATHANIEL MYERS FOR PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">CORAM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (MRS)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:6.7pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>plaintiff,<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>F.K.A<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Company<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Ltd,<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>sued the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>above<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>named<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>defendants<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>recovery of<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>possession<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>any<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>portion<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>plaintiff’s<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>land<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>upon<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>which<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>they<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>had<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>trespassed and an order for the removal of any structures placed on plaintiff’s land at the expense of the defendants. Additionally, it sought for damages for trespass and perpetual<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>injunction<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>restrain<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>defendants<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>their<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>agents<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>dealing<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>any manner with the land, subject matter of the dispute.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:6.75pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">In<span style="letter-spacing: -.85pt"> </span>its<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>accompanying<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>statement<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>claim<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>plaintiff<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>asserted<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.85pt"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>around<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>1980, its Managing Director, Frederick Kofi Asare, acquired a parcel of land from the Weija stool. In 1997, the said transaction was<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>formalized by<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the preparation of an indenture transferring ownership of the entire parcel of land to the plaintiff. After the preparation of the indenture, the plaintiff sold a portion of its land to Mount Olivet Methodist Church; hence, a new indenture was prepared for it by Nii Kojo Kwame II<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>then<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Mankralo<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Weija<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>cover<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>remaining<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>portion.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>According<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to the plaintiff, sometime in 2002, he sued a trespasser on his land and obtained judgment<span style="letter-spacing:1.45pt"> </span>against<span style="letter-spacing:1.5pt"> </span>him.<span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt"> </span>He<span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt"> </span>claimed<span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:1.25pt"> </span>defendants<span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:1.45pt"> </span>this<span style="letter-spacing:1.45pt"> </span>suit<span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt"> </span>had<span style="letter-spacing:1.45pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">similarly</span> trespassed<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>onto<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>land<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>developed<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>structures<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>same<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>spite<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>protests. He therefore prayed for the reliefs endorsed on his writ of summons.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:6.7pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">It<span style="