[2017]DLHC16771 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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">KINGDOM HOPE AVENUE SCH.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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">AGBESHIE ANANE KWASHIE & ORS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;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-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops:168.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;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: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;"> <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;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO.LD/1482/2016 DATE: 10<sup>TH</sup> OCTOBER 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops:96.25pt"><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: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;"> <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"">FORTUNATE K.B FIO FOR PLAINTIFF<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"">FRANK K. NIKOI FOR DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops:112.15pt 151.6pt"><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-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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"">HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY <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: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;"> <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><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:9.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>plaintiff,<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>Kingdom<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Hope<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Avenue<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>School,<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>instituted<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>this action<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>its<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>attorney,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>Watson<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Tugbenyo<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Klutse,<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>against<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the defendants for a declaration of title to a parcel of land located<span style="letter-spacing: -.85pt"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>Ayikai<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>Doblo<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>Ga<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>West<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>District<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>Greater Accra<span style="letter-spacing: 2.75pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>Region.<span style="letter-spacing:2.75pt; mso-font-width:150%"> </span>The<span style="letter-spacing:2.55pt;mso-font-width: 150%"> </span>land<span style="letter-spacing:2.9pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:2.65pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>issue<span style="letter-spacing:2.65pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:2.7pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>described<span style="letter-spacing:2.6pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:2.75pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">the</span> statement of claim as a 9.952 acre land “bounded on the Northwest<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>proposed<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>road<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>measuring<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>712.1<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>feet<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>more<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>or less, on the South East by lessor’s<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>land measuring 714.0 feet more<span style="letter-spacing:.55pt"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing:.6pt"> </span>less,<span style="letter-spacing:.55pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:.65pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:.5pt"> </span>North<span style="letter-spacing:.65pt"> </span>East<span style="letter-spacing:.65pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:.65pt"> </span>lessor’s<span style="letter-spacing:.7pt"> </span>land<span style="letter-spacing:.55pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt">measuring</span> 610.2 feet more or less, on South West by lessor’s land measuring<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>607.2<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>feet<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>more<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>less<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>which<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>delineated<span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>the site plan edged pink”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:9.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>plaintiff’s<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>case<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>it<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>acquired<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>this nine<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>acre<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>parcel of land from the lawful representatives of the Ayikai Doblo family<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt">