HENRY BORTEY DUMAROH & 3 ORS vs CHARLES DUAMROH BORTEY [2017]DLHC16738

Date	2017-05-31
Suit No.	SUIT NO. FAL/874/14
Citation No.	[2017]DLHC16738

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (MRS)

AKOSUA GYAMFI DUAMROH

G.S.K BABANAWO

[2017]DLHC16738
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&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">HENRY BORTEY DUMAROH &amp; 3 ORS<o:p></o:p>

(PLAINTIFFS)<o:p></o:p>

(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>

[HIGH
COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>

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<a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>SUIT NO. FAL/874/14&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: 31ST MARCH 2017<o:p></o:p>

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COUNSEL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>

AKOSUA
GYAMFI DUAMROH FOR PLAINTIFFS<o:p></o:p>

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CORAM<o:p></o:p>

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE
BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (MRS)<o:p></o:p>

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

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The principal issue that caused
the parties in this suit to seek the intervention of the law court was: whether the land in dispute was the
personal property of Charles Kwao Duamroh, as the plaintiffs asserted or
whether the land in dispute was the property of the Duamroh family of Oyibi and
Nungua, as asserted by the defendant.<o:p></o:p>

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The background to this dispute is that
the plaintiffs, Henry, Charles, Isaac and Elijah Duamroh
are children of the late C.K. Duamroh
while the defendant, Charles Duamroh Bortey, is a
paternal cousin of the plaintiffs.<o:p></o:p>

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The plaintiffs’ asserted
that their grandfather, Nii Bortey Duamroh,
was once chief of Oyibi.
During his lifetime, h</main>