MOHAMMED ABDULLAH BAYERE AND NII OKPELLOR JACOB ABLORH MENSAH vs. SALEM INVESTMENT [2016]DLHC3896

MOHAMMED ABDULLAH BAYERE AND NII OKPELLOR JACOB ABLORH MENSAH vs. SALEM INVESTME... [2016]DLHC3896

Date	2016-04-29
Suit No.	SUIT NO.IRL/64/2010
Citation No.	[2016]DLHC3896

HIS LORDSHIP ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT

[2016]DLHC3896
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><a name="OLE_LINK1">MOHAMMED
ABDULLAH BAYERE AND NII OKPELLOR JACOB ABLORH MENSAH</a><o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">vs.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">SALEM INVESTMENT<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[HIGH COURT
(COMMERCIAL DIVISION), ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0in;">SUIT&nbsp;NO.IRL/64/2010&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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:&nbsp;29TH&nbsp;APRIL, 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">CORAM:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">HIS LORDSHIP ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: 1.5pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0in; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0in;">JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Plaintiff in his writ issued on 27/10/09 prayed for the reliefs
set out on the endorsement. I do not find it useful to recount them as same had
been dismissed by the court. To give a clearer picture of the counter claim of
the defendant a summary of the statement of claim of the plaintiff, which
though has been struck, out will suffice.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">&nbsp;The Okpelor Din Sowah family is deemed to be the owners of a
large track of land at Ashalley Botwe and in the amended statement of claim
that accompanied the writ the 2nd&nbsp;plaintiff
avers that by virtue of a power of attorney he became the lawful attorney of
the Okpelor Sowah Din family lands at Nmai Dzorn. And that the lands in dispute
are all part of the larger tract of land belonging to the family. The land
acquired by the 1st&nbsp;plaintiff from the Okpelor Sowah Din family through the
family’s lawful attorney, the 2nd&nbsp;plaintiff
by virtue of a leasehold granted by the 2nd&nbsp;plaintiff
acting by virtue of the power of attorney with the consent of the principal
members of the family.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">&nbsp;The defendant company has wholly denied the claim of the
plaintiffs and have instead counterclaim for the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Declaration of
title to all that piece or parcel of land.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An order of
perpetual injunction restraining the plaintiffs their assigns, servants privies
and any persons howsoever claiming through the plaintiffs any interest
whatsoever in the land from having anything to do with the said land.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">&nbsp;The defendant then set out the basis of his opposition to
the claim in the statement of defence and the counterclaim. Defendant claims
that if there ever existed any power of attorney at all same was revoked by the
donor of the power and 2nd&nbsp;plaintiff could not have purported to have acted
on any such power. And therefore 1st&nbsp;plaintiff
could not have had any valid grant of the land. Again defendant denied 1st&nbsp;plaintiff
ever coming into po</main>