[2017]DLHC16392 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><a name="_Hlk146980440"></a><a name="_Hlk146981432"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#00B0F0">FANTASTICO DAVIDE AND FANTASTIC ITAL LTD.<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">(PLAINTIFF)</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#00B0F0">RICHARD OFORI OPPONG, NANA AMO POKUAA & 4 ORS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">(DEFENDANTS)</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#00B0F0;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> </span></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;"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops: 4.5pt;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm; mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">SUIT NO: FAL/195/14 DATE:</span> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">26<sup>TH</sup> APRIL 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">COUNSEL</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">JOSEPH KAPONDE ESQ LAWYER FOR PLAINTIFFS<o:p></o:p></span></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt; border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm; mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">CHARLES KUSI ESQ LAWYER FOR 1ST, 5TH AND 6TH DEFENDANTS<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">CORAM</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE ANTHONY OPPONG<o:p></o:p></span></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%; tab-stops:4.5pt;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"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">By their Writ of Summons filed on 29th October, 2013, Plaintiffs<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>sought the undermentioned reliefs against Defendants:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3;tab-stops:4.5pt 76.9pt 77.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;letter-spacing:-.05pt">a)<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Declaration of title to all that parcel of land measuring 0.29 hectares more or less being parcel no. 1128, Block 16, section 086, situate, lying and being at Adenta Estates in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana and delineated on Registry Map No. 0191066 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3;tab-stops:4.5pt 76.9pt 77.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;letter-spacing:-.05pt">b)<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">An order for the immediate ejectment of Defendants and the removal of structures placed on the Plaintiffs’ land aforesaid<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:76.95pt;text-align:justify; text-indent:-17.95pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3;tab-stops:4.5pt 76.95pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;letter-spacing:-.05pt">c)<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; letter-spacing:-.1pt">Costs</span></i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:5.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The 1st Plaintiff is an Italian whilst the 2nd Plaintiff is a Company duly incorporated under the laws of Ghana with 1st Plaintiff as its director.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:5.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>1st<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Plaintiff avers<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>that in<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>about 1996,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt">