KWASI ABENE vs. MADAM YAA AFRA [2017]DLCA5247

Date	2017-02-16
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEA NO: H1/6/2014
Citation No.	[2017]DLCA5247

E. K. AYEBI (PRESIDING) JA

GERTRUDE TORKORNOO (MRS.) JA

ANGELINA M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) JA

[2017]DLCA5247
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KWASI ABENE<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MADAM YAA AFRA<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</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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CIVIL
APPEA NO: H1/6/2014&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 16TH FEBRUARY, 2017<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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E.
K. AYEBI (PRESIDING) JA, GERTRUDE TORKORNOO (MRS.) JA, ANGELINA M. DOMAKYAAREH
(MRS.) JA<o:p></o:p>

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

</div>AYEBI,
JA<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
From
the record of appeal, this suit was launched by Madam Yaa Afrah on 6th
September 1993 against Kwasi Abene in the High Court.&nbsp; The subject-matter in dispute between the
parties is H/No. plot 18, Block “C” Nsema-Atwima.&nbsp; All the evidence in the case were presented
before Piesare J (as he then was).&nbsp; Specifically
on 22nd July 1998, the defendant closed his case.&nbsp; At the request of counsel for the plaintiff
that day, the court adjourned the matter to 31st July 1998 to visit
the locus at 2.00pm.<o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
But
there were no proceedings in the matter until 19th January 2010 when
the suit was placed before Debrah J.&nbsp; And
when he was properly seised with jurisdiction over the suit by the Chief
Justice’s order of transfer, all Debrah J did was to order written submissions
upon which he delivered judgment on 24th January 2012.<o:p></o:p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The
claim of the plaintiff as endorsed on the writ of summons against the
defendants jointly and severally is for:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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A declaration that the immediate
family members of Madam Yaa Mobi (deceased) of Nzema are the beneficial owners
of H/No. Plot 18, Block “C”, Nzema-Atwima.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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Recovery and possession of rooms
occupied by defendant and his brothers and sisters.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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An order of injunction restraining
the defendants or any person(s) from whom they claim from in any way making
adverse claim to the house by threatening to eject the plaintiff and her family
from the house.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;
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