KWABENA OFORI ODURO, MARY ODURO AND AGNES ODURO vs. ISAAC KWASI OWUSU [2015]DLSC3219

Date	2015-07-29
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/22/2013
Citation No.	[2015]DLSC3219

WOOD (MRS.) CJ (PRESIDING)

ANSAH JSC

DOTSE JSC

BAFFOE BONNIE JSC

AKAMBA JSC

ROBERT KINGSLEY YEBOAH ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANT / APPELLANT /APPELLANT.

KWASI ADJENIM BOATENG ESQ. WITH HIM CONSTANCE QUIST FOR THE PLAINTIFFS/ RESPONDENTS / RESPONDENTS.

[2015]DLSC3219
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KWABENA
OFORI ODURO, MARY ODURO AND AGNES ODURO<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>ISAAC KWASI
OWUSU<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. J4/22/2013&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: 29TH
JULY, 2015<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>ROBERT
KINGSLEY YEBOAH ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANT / APPELLANT /APPELLANT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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KWASI
ADJENIM BOATENG ESQ. WITH HIM CONSTANCE QUIST FOR THE PLAINTIFFS/
RESPONDENTS / RESPONDENTS.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>AKAMBA,
JSC: <o:p></o:p>On 23rd
December 2014, this court determined two of the grounds of appeal, namely
grounds (a) and (d) filed for determination of this appeal. The two grounds
alleged that the Court of Appeal had failed to resolve completely all the
matters raised in the appeal by its failure to order a retrial after
acknowledging that parts of the evidence of the Defendant/Appellant
(hereinafter simply referred to as Appellant) were not recorded by the trial
judge. We granted the two reliefs in favour of the Appellant and directed,
pursuant to rule 23 (3) of CI 16, that the High Court, Accra should re-hear the
concluding part of the Appellant’s evidence in chief and the cross examination
as well as re-examination thereon, if any, and transmit the outcome to this
court for final determination of this appeal. The order having been duly
complied with and the record of appeal now complete, we proceed to deliver on
the remaining grounds of appeal in this judgment.<o:p></o:p>BRIEF FACTS<o:p></o:p>In retrospect this appeal
is from the decision of the Court of Appeal of 21/10/2010. <o:p></o:p>The plaintiffs/respondents
(hereinafter simply referred to as respondents) who initiated this action in
the High Court, Accra, are the children of Augustus Kofi Oduro, (deceased), the undisputed owner of the house in issue.
The said Augustus Kofi Oduro died
intestate on 4th November 1981. On 17th December 1982,
the High Court, granted letters of administration to his grandson Augustus Yaw Oduro to administer the estate. Augustus
Yaw Oduro’s letters of
administration (hereinafter simply L/A) was however revoked on 23rd
March 1983. Eleven years after the aforesaid revocation and precisely on 22nd
September 1994, the plaintiffs applied for and were granted new letters of administration
to administer the estate. The plaintiffs in the course of administering their
late father’s estate discovered that the house in issue had been sold by the
discharged administrator. The purported sale was evidenced by a Deed of
Conveyance No 461/1985 dated 27th September 1980. The plaintiffs discovered that the vendor and purchaser
perpetuated fraud because the recitals in the Deed of Conveyance are
inconsistent with the date of execution.<o:p></o:p>The respondents as
plaintiffs in their writ of summons issued against appellant as defendant dated
23rd November 1995 sought the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>&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;
i.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Declaration that the sale of H/No C383/2
Amugi Avenue, Adabraka, Accra by a deed of conveyance No 461/1985 to the Defendant
by the vendor therein as a fraud and therefore null and void. <o:p></o:p>&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;
ii.