FRANK OSEI TUTU vs. FRANK OWUSU, ANTOINETTE OSUSU ANSAH, F. G. DEVELOPERS LTD. AND EDWARD OSEI TUTU (JOINDER) [2017]DLCA4752

FRANK OSEI TUTU vs. FRANK OWUSU, ANTOINETTE OSUSU ANSAH, F. G. DEVELOPERS LTD.... [2017]DLCA4752

Date	2017-07-19
Suit No.	SUIT NO: H1/20/2017
Citation No.	[2017]DLCA4752

AYEBI J.A. (PRESIDING)

TORKORNOO (MRS) J. A.

DOMAKYAAREH (MRS) J. A.

COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT-OSEI KUFFOUR WITH EUNICE ADU GYAMFI

COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS-SAEED KOFI SAM

[2017]DLCA4752
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >FRANK OSEI
TUTU<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>FRANK OWUSU,
ANTOINETTE OSUSU ANSAH, F. G. DEVELOPERS LTD. AND EDWARD OSEI TUTU (JOINDER)<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<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: H1/20/2017&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 19TH JULY, 2017<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT-OSEI KUFFOUR
WITH EUNICE ADU GYAMFI&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS-SAEED KOFI
SAM&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>

AYEBI J.A. (PRESIDING), TORKORNOO (MRS) J. A., DOMAKYAAREH
(MRS) J. A.<o:p></o:p>

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

</div><span style="font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">TORKORNOO (MRS), J.A.<o:p></o:p>The Plaintiff/Appellant’s case is
that while he is very much alive, the 1st and 2nd Defendants
have presented to the high court that he is dead, and obtained letters of
administration to his estate. He also alleges that in 1969, his father Martin
Osei Tutu (now deceased) gave him a gift of land numbered Plot 13, Block XIV situate
and lying at Suame, Kumasi. His interest in the land was registered with the
Lands Commission as a direct lease from the government dated 16th
September 1969. His father died testate in 1989 and never mentioned this
property in his Will as belonging to his estate. His father paid the property
rates on the property for the first ten years between 1969 and 1979. Thereafter,
he Appellant paid the arrears of the property rates on the property from 1979
till 1997. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>He travelled to the United Kingdom and
while living there in 2015, his attention was drawn to the unauthorized presence
of the 3rd Defendant who had allegedly moved machinery on to his
property and was feverishly developing same. He came to Ghana to confront the 3rd
Defendant. It was on the taking of steps to find out why his land was being
developed that he discovered the records covering his ‘death’ and the ‘administration
of his estate’. He also discovered that after obtaining letters of
administration to his ‘estate’, the 1st
Defendant had allegedly executed an assignment in favor of the 3rd Defendant
as an assignee of Plot 13, Block XIV Suame. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>He therefore sued the first to third
Defendants for <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An
order revoking the letters of administration granted to the 1st and
2nd Defendants on the 26th of February, 2013.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">b.