FATHER REV.RAPHAEL PEPRAH vs. KWAME MENSAH [2017]DLCA5083

Date	2017-07-19
Suit No.	SUIT No. H1/49/2017
Citation No.	[2017]DLCA5083

E. K. AYEBI J.A. (PRESIDING)

G. TORKORNOO (MRS) J.A.

A. M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) J.A.

[2017]DLCA5083
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >FATHER REV.RAPHAEL PEPRAH<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>KWAME MENSAH<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<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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19TH JULY, 2017<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>E.
K. AYEBI J.A. (PRESIDING), G. TORKORNOO (MRS) J.A., A. M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.)
J.A.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>DOMAKYAAREH
(MRS.), J.A<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
This
is an appeal against the judgment of the Circuit Court, Kumasi dated 31st
October, 2014.<o:p></o:p>The
plaintiff/respondent herein issued a writ against the defendant/ appellant
herein at the Circuit Court, Kumasi on 17th September 2010, claiming
the following reliefs.<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A
declaration of title to and recovery of possession of all that building Plot
No. 239 situate and being at Atwima Agogo on Atwima Agogo Stool land and
bounded by the Plots Nos. 238 and 240 and a street and UPS house <o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Damages
for trespass<o:p></o:p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Perpetual
injunction restraining the defendant, his relatives, agents/servants from
having any dealings with the said plot.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
These
claims were anchored on the plaintiff/respondent’s Statement of Claim where he
averred that in 1990, he acquired three building Plots Nos, 237, 238, 239 from
the Chief of Atwima Agogo, Nana Owusu Afriyie and was issued with an allocation
note and a site plan. He said he built two houses on Plots Nos. 237 and 238
leaving Plot No. 239 where he piled some sand to commence the construction of
another house thereon. He contended that without any justification, the defendant/appellant
engaged masons and was feverishly constructing a house on the said Plot No. 239
Atwima Agogo which he considered to constitute trespass. He therefore filed a Writ
against the defendant/appellant as aforesaid, claiming the reliefs endorsed
thereon.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
In
an Amended Statement of Defence and Counterclaim, the defendant/appellant
denied the averments of the plaintiff/respondent and averred instead that the
land in dispute is a family land which origin</main>