THEOPHILIA ACHEAMPONG vs. SOS GHANA [2016]DLHC4224

Date	2016-11-29
Suit No.	SUIT NO. E1/27/2016
Citation No.	[2016]DLHC4224

ALEXANDER OSEI TUTU J.

EMMANUEL KYEI YANKSON FOR ERIC ASUMAN-ADU FOR THE PLAINTIFF

PEARL KWAMLA FOR DOE TSIKATA FOR THE DEFENDANT

[2016]DLHC4224
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="OLE_LINK1">THEOPHILIA
ACHEAMPONG<o:p></o:p></a>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;vs.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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>SOS GHANA<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[HIGH COURT (LAND DIVISION),
TEMA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT NO.
E1/27/2016&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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; <o:p></o:p>EMMANUEL
KYEI YANKSON FOR ERIC ASUMAN-ADU FOR THE PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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ALEXANDER
OSEI TUTU J. SITTING AS JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT<o:p></o:p>

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JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>Such is the trouble as in this case
when a guardian and her “child’ of forty-two years relationship mount the
litigation arena to face each other. The invitation for the contest was
initiated by the Plaintiff barely a year ago and the Defendant accepted the
challenge with a view to proving to the Plaintiff that it does not pay to tell
the one carrying you at his back that he stinks. The facts simply are that the
Plaintiff was among the pioneer inmates of SOS, Ghana admitted at their village
at the age of ten (10) in 1974. She left the Village when she married. She was
later accommodated at the Village, where she stayed for a long time with her
husband and children. Recently, when the Plaintiff’s daughter began
renovation/extension works on the building, the Defendant razed everything
down. The Plaintiff contends that the building was built and gifted to her, but
the Defendant claimed otherwise.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The endorsement contained in the
plaintiff’s writ of summons was:<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; border: none;">A declaration of title to the
 property located at Community 6, Tema in the area known as S.O.S. Village,<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="2" type="a">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; border: none;">A declaration that the
 demolition carried out by the Defendant was unlawful,<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="3" type="a">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; border: none;">Damages for the unlawful
 demolition of Plaintiff’s property.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="4" type="a">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; border: none;">Perpetual injunction
 restraining the Defendant, his agents, assigns and privies from in any way
 interfering in the use of Plaintiff’s property, situate and lying at
 Community 6, Tema known as S.O.S. Village.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The Writ of Summons was accompanied
by a 15-paragraph statement of claim. The defendant’s Statement of Defence did
not include a counterclaim, but it was determined to do battle with the poor
Plaintiff. An African proverb says:&nbsp; “A goat’s frown cannot stop it from being
taken to the market.”&nbsp; After
pleadings, the underneath issues filed by the counsel for the parties were
adopted by the court.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; border: none;">Whether or not one Handel, who
 was the one time village coordinator informed the plaintiff a village
 child then that he would build a residential accommodation for her and did
 instruct the then father of the village Mr. Owoo to look for a residential
 plot for the construction of the said house.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="2" type="a">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; border: none;">Whether or not the said Mr.
 Owoo informed Mr. Handel that there were some vacant lands at the village
 as a result of which Mr. Handel directed that a house be built for the
 Plaintiff on the said</main>