DZIDULA MASIKU vs. JOHN PINTO [2017]DLHC11964

Date	2017-07-27
Suit No.	SUIT NO. FAL159/15
Citation No.	[2017]DLHC11964

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE REBECCA N. S. SITTIE (MRS)

JEAN MAURELLET FOR PLAINTIFF

EDMUND AMAKO FOR DEFENDANT

[2017]DLHC11964
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >DZIDULA MASIKU<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>JOHN
PINTO<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">[HIGH
COURT, ACCRA (LAND DIVISION) ]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

</div>COUNSEL&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; <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

JEAN
MAURELLET FOR PLAINTIFF ,<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE REBECCA N.
S. SITTIE (MRS)<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 5.75pt;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%;
border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>Plaintiff issued
a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim against
Defendant in his personal
capacity and in a representative capacity as the Head and Lawful Representative
of the Pinto Family of Dodowa through his lawful Attorney Wilson Kwami Masiku
on 21st October 2014 for the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;letter-spacing:-.05pt">a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A declaration that the said
leased land per the Lease indenture or document dated 4th October
2007 and same described as all that piece or parcel situate lying and being at
Dodowa Akwateng in the Ga Dangbe West District in the Greater Accra Region of
the Republic of Ghana containing an approximate area of 4.27 acre or 1.73
hectares and bounded on the North-East by the lessor’s land measuring a
distance of<o:p></o:p>469.6
feet more or less and bounded on the South-East by the lessor’s land measuring a distance of 397.3 feet more or less and bounded on the
South-West by the lessor’s land measuring 443.17 feet more or less and bounded on the North-West by a proposed
road measuring a distance of<o:p></o:p>419.0
feet more or less does not belong to the Pinto Family of Dodowa but belongs
to one Mrs Margaret Lovering
D. N. Pinto of the Pinto Family of Dodowa by virtue
of the search report conducted
at Lands Commission Accra by Ghana Water Company Limited
dated 11th August 2011 and used
in the previous Suit number FAL688/11 before High Court 9 Accra.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
letter-spacing:-.05pt">b.