[2017]DLHC16605 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:5.5pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">RUFUS DORGBEFU, WILHERMINA DORGBEFU, STATE HOUSING COMPANY LTD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:5.5pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">(PLAINTIFFS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:5.5pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:5.5pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">RAINBOW SCHOOL INTELLECTUAL GHANA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:5.5pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:5.5pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:5.5pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops:168.75pt center 245.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <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: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 5.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO. FAL/867/2012 DATE: 2<sup>ND</sup> JUNE 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:5.5pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops:403.2pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">COUNSEL <o:p></o:p></span></b></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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 5.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">JAMES MENSAH KULLEY FOR PLAINTIFFS <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">DELA BLAGOGEE FOR DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:5.5pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">CORAM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:5.5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE K. A. GYIMAH <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 5.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><h1 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></h1><h1 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Plaintiffs’<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">case</span><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:7.55pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The plaintiffs are a couple who are ordinarily resident in Nottingham, United Kingdom<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>they<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>instituted<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>this<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>action<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>per<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>their<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>lawful<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>attorney<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Caphel<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Dorgbefu.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>It is the plaintiff’s case that sometime in the year 2007 they had the desire of owning a land at Adenta/Frafraha.<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt"> </span>They were shown the land in dispute and they were introduced to the chief of Frafraha Nii Kommey Mensah Larsey as the owner of the land.<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>They<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>went<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>chief<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>who<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>informed<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>them<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>land<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>question<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>belonged<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>to the State Housing Company Limited and that the State Housing Company Limited will be the best entity to grant the land to the plaintiffs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:7.05pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:7.05pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The plaintiffs aver that they then went to the State Housing Company Limited and it was<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>confirmed<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>land<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>dispute<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>part<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>lands<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>measuring<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>2.068.99<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>acres<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>that were compulsorily acquired by the government on 27<sup>th</sup> May 1992 through EI 15 of 1992 captioned State Lands (Accra-Adentan Site for Ghana Housing Corporation) Instrument, 1992 and granted by the government to the State Housing Company Limited by a lease dated 7<sup>th</sup> August 1996. The State Housing Company Limited also by a lease dated 20<sup>th</sup> July 2011 granted the land in dispute to the plaintiffs and gave them<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>certificate<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>right<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>entry<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>onto<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>land.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>It is<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>plaintiffs’ case<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>they<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>had their<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>lease<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt"> </span>agreement<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>plotted<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>the