[2016]DLHC16367 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><a name="_Hlk146980440"></a><a name="_Hlk146981432"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana; color:#00B0F0">BEATRICE ANORKOR ADAMS<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">(PLAINTIFF)</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#00B0F0">FELICIA LOMOTEY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">(DEFENDANT)</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#4F81BD;mso-themecolor:accent1;mso-style-textoutline-type:solid; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color:#00B0F0;mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha:100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth:.75pt;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: flat;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join:round;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash:solid;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound:simple;mso-effects-shadow-color: #6E747A;mso-effects-shadow-alpha:43.0%;mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius:3.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance:2.0pt;mso-effects-shadow-angledirection:5400000; mso-effects-shadow-align:center;mso-effects-shadow-pctsx:100.0%;mso-effects-shadow-pctsy: 100.0%;mso-effects-shadow-anglekx:0;mso-effects-shadow-angleky:0;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> </span></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">SUIT NO: LD/0552/2016 DATE: 28<sup>TH</sup> NOVEMBER 2016<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">COUNSEL</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">KWAKU OWUSU AGYEMANG FOR PLAINTIFF <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: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">LAWYER FOR DEFENDANT <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">CORAM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE ANTHONY OPPONG<o:p></o:p></span></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="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"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">My<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>name<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>Beatrice<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>Anorkor<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>Adams.<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>live<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>La,<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>Accra.<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>know<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>Joseph<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>Apo<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>Kwabla Adams. He was my father. He is dead now. Myself Beatrice Anorkor Adams, Nii Lartey Adams and Tetteh Adams applied for and obtained Letters of Administration in respect of the<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>estate<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>Joseph<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>Apo<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>Kwabla<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>Adams<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>(deceased).<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>A<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>copy<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>Letters<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>Administration in respect of the estate of J. A. K. Adams is tendered and admitted as Exhibit ‘A’.<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>Tetteh Adams<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>present<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>this<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>Court<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>but<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>Lartey<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>Adams<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>house.<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>consent<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>Lartey Adams<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Tetteh<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Adams<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>institute<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>this<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>action.<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>know<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Defendant<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>this<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>case.<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>My late father told me that he leased a portion of his land. The lease was for 25years. The lease started in 1987 and it expired in 2012. I made the Defendant aware that her lease had expired.<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>requested<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt"> </span>her<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>vacate<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>land.<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>The<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>land<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>located<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>opposite<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>La<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>wireless<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>station in Accra.<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>have a<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>site<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>plan<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>land.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>The<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>site<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>plan is<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>tendered<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>marked<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Exhibit ‘B’. My<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>late<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>father<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>had<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>document<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>land.<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>my<span style="letter-spacing:-.