[2017]DLHC16780 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="_Hlk152146143"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; color:#00B0F0">RICHARD OPATA<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;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="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;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="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; color:#00B0F0">LAWRENCE KWEKU AZAMETSI AND 3 ORS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;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="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;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" align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:168.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> </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;"> <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:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO. LDA/0003/2016 DATE: 9<sup>TH</sup> MAY 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;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> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">GEORGE K. BEKAI FOR PLAINTIFF <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;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;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">ABRAHAM AMALIBA FOR DEFENDANTS<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;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="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">EMMANUEL AMO YARTEY, J. <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;"> <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;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">This is an appeal against the judgment of the District Magistrate Court, Dodowa dated 3rd December, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">At<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>trial<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>court<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Plaintiff<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>asked<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>following<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>reliefs<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>against<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Defendants:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:6.05pt;text-align:justify; line-height:115%;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo2;tab-stops:41.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-font-width:99%">1.<span style="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><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Declaration of ownership of a piece of land situate and lying at a place commonly known<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:1.0pt"> </span>called<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>Ponpontiso<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>Amaganya<span style="letter-spacing:1.2pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>covering<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>approximate<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>area<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>of<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:41.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">4.68<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>acres<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>bounded<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>follows;<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>East<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>properties<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Osofo<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Yaw<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">and</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:41.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">J. F. Wulff, on the South by properties of Epode, Okoe Mensah and Okoe Annan, on<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>West<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>properties<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>J.<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>F.<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Wulff<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Amankwa<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>North<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>properties of Soa Agbeve/Azamatsi.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:6.3pt;text-align:justify; line-height:115%;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo2;tab-stops:41.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-font-width:99%">2.<span style="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><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;