EVELYN NAA ADAKU ADDO vs. SYLVESTER AMANKWAH, MAWUNYO (ALIAS VULCANIZER) [2016]DLHC11907

Date	2016-10-21
Suit No.	SUIT NO. FAL/427/2011
Citation No.	[2016]DLHC11907

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE PATIENCE-MILLS TETTEH

VICTOR KWADJOGAH ADAWUDU FOR PLAINTIFF

NASHIRU YUSIF FOR DEFENDANT

[2016]DLHC11907
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >EVELYN
NAA ADAKU ADDO <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>SYLVESTER
AMANKWAH, MAWUNYO (ALIAS VULCANIZER) <o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o: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;">

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padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">SUIT NO. FAL/427/2011&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: 21ST&nbsp;OCTOBER 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL&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; <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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ADAWUDU FOR PLAINTIFF <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE PATIENCE-MILLS
TETTEH<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

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</div>This
is the case of a rival claim to a parcel of land with same grantors. The
plaintiff who exhibited membership card of the Abola Piam family, her
grantors,&nbsp; instituted this action on the
21/03/11, with the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>a.&nbsp; Declaration of title to a parcel of land with
registration number GA 22663<o:p></o:p>b. An order of the honourable court to demolish
the structure constructed by the defendant on the land.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>c.&nbsp; General damages for trespassing and
demolishing of structure by the defendant.<o:p></o:p>d. Perpetual injunction restraining the defendant,
privies, assigns servants and workmen from entering the said land.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;CASE
OF THE PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p>It
is the case of the plaintiff that she acquired a parcel of land situate and
lying at Sowutuom in the Ga Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra Region
which she registered in accordance with existing laws governing land
registration in Ghana. <o:p></o:p>According
to the plaintiff, she constructed 2 single rooms on the extreme ends of the
land with a place of convenience and water reservoir and had since been in
possession with another 2 bed rooms on the other extreme end of the land. It is
the case of the plaintiff that 1st defendant destroyed her water reservoir and
place of convenience and constructed a single room on the same land. The
plaintiff submitted that that she has been in undisturbed possession until last
year when the 1st defendant started to encroach and trespass on the land.
According to the plaintiff she reported the matter of trespass to the Police
Property and Fraud Unit which investigated the matter and 1st defendant was
called upon to produce his title and proof of ownership but he could not
produce anything to that effect and the police warned him to desist from the
act. It is the case of the plaintiff that, 1st defendant did not heed to any advice
to stop development on the land. She therefore prayed this court for the above
stated reliefs<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;CASE OF THE DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p>The
1st and 2nd defendants submitted that the parcel of land situated and lying at
Sowutuom in the Ga South Municipal Assembly is registered in the name Messrs.’
Fred Brown and Henry Quartey Papafio with registration number AR4102A/2004
acquired on the 10th April 1997 from Colonel John Tetteh Addy of the Abola Piam
family. It is the case of the 1st and 2nd defendants that the 2 single rooms
constructed by the plaintiff are on a different spot. The 1st defendant stated
that he was to provide service for one Madam Ama Odwira Danquah by constructing
a single room because the defendant owns a document on the land. The 1st and
2nd defendants submitted that they were put on the land by one Madam Ama Odwira
Danquah who is the bonafide owner of the land which was registered by her
assignor with registration number AR 4102A/2004 at Land Commission. According
to the 1st and 2nd defendants, the owner of the land, Madam Ama Odwira Danquah
purchased the land from Messrs.’ Fred Brown and Henry Quartey Papafio. It is
the defendant’s case that the plaintiff never checked from the Lands Commission
before she registered her land at the Land Title Registry. The defendants
therefore counter claimed against the plaintiffs as follows:<o:p></o:p>