NENE NARH ADRAH, PETER ASHIATEY CHARTEY vs. APOSTLE SARAH [2016]DLHC17198

Date	2016-11-29
Suit No.	SUIT NO. FAL 614/2015
Citation No.	[2016]DLHC17198

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (MRS)

VINCENT GARR

[2016]DLHC17198
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >NENE NARH ADRAH, PETER ASHIATEY CHARTEY<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>APOSTLE SARAH<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT, ACCRA]<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;&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: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

<a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>SUIT NO. FAL 614/2015&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 NOVEMBER 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL&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: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

VINCENT GARR FOR PLAINTIFFS<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE
BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (MRS)<o:p></o: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; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;The
plaintiffs, Nene Narh Adrah and Peter Ashiatey Chartey in their capacities as
joint heads of the Nene Martey Chartey Awah Stool family of Kordiabe
brought this action
against the defendant, Apostle Sarah, for a
declaration of title, recovery of possession, damages for trespass and perpetual injunction to restrain her from
dealing with the land in dispute.<o:p></o:p>The
plaintiffs’ case as gleaned from their amended statement of claim was that
their great grandfather Nene Chartey first settled on the land in dispute and
engaged in farming and hunting. He leased sections of the land to individual
developers and granted licenses to others to farm thereon.<o:p></o:p>According
to the plaintiffs in 1974, Nene Chartey Awah III, the Paramount Chief of Shai and a member of the Lekpedzedom Royal family leased 640 acres of the family’s land located at
Ayikuma to one K.A. Gbedemah
for a period of twenty
five years. The registered
indenture covering this
lease was tendered
in evidence and marked
as exhibit A.<o:p></o:p>The plaintiffs further claimed that K.A Gbedemah
also encroached on a section
of their family land located at Kordiabe. Thus the family petitioned the Shai
Traditional Council to intervene by a letter
dated 14th November 1975