DANIEL S. B. BOTCHWAY vs. VICTOR AKUSHEY-STEVENS, HAJIA MUNIRATU [2016]DLHC11962

Date	2016-02-26
Suit No.	SUIT NO. FAL/708/12
Citation No.	[2016]DLHC11962

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE REBECCA N. S. SITTIE (MRS)

J. K. GYIMAH FOR THE PLAINTIFF

JOHN KLU FOR THE DEFENDANTS

[2016]DLHC11962
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >DANIEL S. B. BOTCHWAY <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>VICTOR
AKUSHEY-STEVENS, HAJIA MUNIRATU <o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">[HIGH
COURT, ACCRA (LAND DIVISION) ]<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;">

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">SUIT
NO. FAL/708/12&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: 26TH&nbsp;FEBRUARY 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;">

J. K.
GYIMAH FOR THE PLAINTIFF ,<o:p></o:p>

JOHN KLU
FOR THE DEFENDANTS &nbsp;<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE REBECCA N.
S. SITTIE (MRS)<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; margin-left: 5pt; margin-right: 5.8pt;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:1.05pt;text-align:center;
line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>Plaintiff
as Head of Family of the late Daniel Seth Botchway issued a Writ of Summons and
Statement of Claim against the Defendants on 19th June 2012 for the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
letter-spacing:-.05pt">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A declaration that a
purported conveyance of a piece or parcel of land situate lying and being at
Chuim-Odorkor, Accra covering an approximate
area of 0.18 acre and particularly described in the statement of Claim by late
Daniel Seth Botchway to the late Emmanuel Amukwei Akushey-Stevens is forgery
and as such null and void.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.05pt;line-height:
115%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2;tab-stops:41.05pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;letter-spacing:-.05pt">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Recovery of
possession<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
letter-spacing:-.05pt">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order directed to the
Lands Commission (Registration Division) to cancel the land registration
No.1238/1973 in the name of the late Emmanuel Amukwei Akushey-Stevens.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;BRIEF FACTS<o:p></o:p>Plaintiff
who is the head of Family of the late Daniel Seth Botchway avers that the late
Daniel Seth Botchway acquired the land in dispute in 1961 from the Gbawe Tawiah
Family. The late Daniel Botchway registered the said transaction and farmed on the land but did not have money to
develop it. Plaintiff avers that late Daniel Botchway became blind in 1972 and
died in 1984. Plaintiff avers that after Daniel Botchway became blind the
surveyor for the Gbawe Tawiah Family called William Akushey Stevens attempted
to enter the land but was warned off by the Gbawe Tawiah Family
because of their prior sale to Daniel
Seth Botchway. Plaintiff says they later found out that the land had been
registered in the name of Emmanuel Amukwei Stevens a brother of the Gbawe Tawiah surveyor, William Akushey Stevens.
It is Plaintiff’s case that the
purported deed could not have been signed by the late Daniel Botchway because
at the date that Deed was executed
Daniel Botchway was blind and therefore Daniel Seth Botchway’s signature was
forged. Plaintiff says about two
years prior to instituting this
action he