AGNES TUFFOUR @ SERWAA vs. AKWASI ADU AND YAA KONADU [2018]DLCA4432

Date	2018-02-21
Suit No.	CIVIL SUIT APPEAL: H1/67/2013
Citation No.	[2018]DLCA4432

ADUAMA OSEI JA (PRESIDING)

DZAMEFE JA

M. WELBOURNE JA

[2018]DLCA4432
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >AGNES TUFFOUR @ SERWAA<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>AKWASI ADU AND YAA
KONADU<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL
SUIT APPEAL:&nbsp; H1/67/2013&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; &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: 21ST FEBRUARY, 2018<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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ADUAMA
OSEI JA (PRESIDING), DZAMEFE JA, M. WELBOURNE JA<o:p></o:p>

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

</div>DZAMEFE,
JA<o:p></o:p>This is an appeal from the High
Court Kumasi.&nbsp; The plaintiff/respondent
hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff issued this writ against the
defendant/appellant from the following reliefs: -<o:p></o:p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Declaration that the title to all
that house situate on land described as No. 84 BLK B, New Suame, Kumasi is
vested in the plaintiff.<o:p></o:p>b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Recovery of possession<o:p></o:p>c.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; General damages for trespass<o:p></o:p>d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Order of perpetual injunction
restraining the defendants herein, whether by themselves or their agents,
assigns, servant workmen and all or any other persons claiming ownership, under
or in trust from them in any way interfering with or dealing with the house.<o:p></o:p>e.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cost.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The plaintiff resides ordinarily in
Belgium and the defendants are the younger siblings.&nbsp; The plaintiff’s case is that sometime in 1973
the deceased father Joseph Kwadwo Tuffour acquired a vacant plot No. 84 BLK B,
New Suame, Kumasi in her name at the time when she was a minor.&nbsp; When she attained majority, the father asked
her to provide money to develop a dwelling house on the plot and this house was
to became her property afterwards.&nbsp; This
the deceased father said before some witnesses.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Plaintiff said she obtained a
building permit for the project and also remitted money to the father to build
the house while she travelled abroad in 1978 at the age of 22 years.&nbsp; The plaintiff averred the father put up a two
storey building on the land with the funds she provided and completed in 1996.
The father and mother lived in the house till their deaths in September 2007
and February 2008 respectively.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>It is the plaintiff’s case that
after the death of their father, his Will revealed he had devised the said house
to their mother and all other siblings.&nbsp; Pursuant
to the devise in the Will the defendants have on different occasions sought to
take forceful possession of the house.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The plaintiff avers further that
sometime in August 2009, the 1st defendant forcefully entered the
house and forcefully removed all the things in some of the rooms in order to
occupy same. That the defendants have demonstrated clearly that they would persist
in their w</main>