ELVIS YAW SAKYI PER ERIC YAW SAKYI vs FRANCIS KWAKU AGYEMANG [2017]DLHC16389

Date	2017-03-01
Suit No.	SUIT NO: IRL/299/10
Citation No.	[2017]DLHC16389

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE ANTHONY OPPONG

DR. JOSEPH ATTIPOE ESQ

OLIVER ATSU AADA ESQ.

[2017]DLHC16389
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="_Hlk146980440"></a><a name="_Hlk146981432">ELVIS YAW SAKYI PER ERIC YAW SAKYI<o:p></o:p></a>&nbsp;(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>FRANCIS
KWAKU AGYEMANG <o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<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;">

SUIT NO: IRL/299/10&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:1ST
MARCH 2017<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL&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;">

DR. JOSEPH ATTIPOE ESQ. FOR PLAINTIFF <o:p></o:p>

OLIVER ATSU AADA ESQ. FOR DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM
<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE ANTHONY OPPONG<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;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%;
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</div>&nbsp;The
case of the Plaintiff is that on 14th March, 1997, he acquired two plots of land from Nii Ayaa Odonkor. There
is an indenture to that effect, that is, Exhibit ‘B’. The subject matter
of this acquisition is described as situate and lying at Ashongman, Accra and
is bounded on the North by proposed road measuring 65feet more or less on the
south by proposed road measuring 70feet more or less on the east by Assignor’s
land measuring 190feet more or less on the west by Assignor’s land measuring 190feet
more or less and containing an approximate area of 0.29acre more or
less.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Plaintiff
registered the land at the Land Title Registry and was issued with a Land Title
Certificate number GA27507 dated 28th November, 2008. The Land Title
Certificate was tendered and admitted as Exhibit ‘C’.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Plaintiff,
after the acquisition, entered the land and started developing a plot thereof.
He actually developed a four bedroom house on the land but the development of that house was not without challenge. When Plaintiff was developing the land, one Madam Ama Biama Owusu confronted him that the land Plaintiff was developing
belonged to her. A surveyor’s service was engaged to investigate the claim of
Madam Ama Biama Owusu and the investigation
revealed that the land Plaintiff had developed actually
belonged to the woman. Consequently, Plaintiff could not help it but
negotiated and paid her the open market value of the land.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Plaintiff thereafter engaged the services
of one Mr. Adesa (PW2)
from the Survey Department to use his expertise to locate where
Plaintiff’s acquired land was on the ground. That