DANIEL BOADI vs. ABENA NYAME ADOM & 1OR [2018]DLCA4619

Date	2018-02-04
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO: H1/59/2017
Citation No.	[2018]DLCA4619

IRENE C. LARBI (MRS) J.A. (PRESIDING)

LAWRENCE L. MENSAH J.A.

A. M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS) J.A.

KWABENA BOATENG FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT

CYNTHIA MARTINSON FOR THE DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT

[2018]DLCA4619
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >DANIEL BOADI&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>ABENA NYAME ADOM &amp; 1OR <o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, CAPE COAST]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL APPEAL NO: H1/59/2017&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: 4TH FEBRUARY, 2018<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>KWABENA BOATENG FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CYNTHIA
MARTINSON FOR THE DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT <o:p></o:p>

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IRENE
C. LARBI (MRS) J.A. (PRESIDING),
LAWRENCE L. MENSAH J.A., A.
M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS) J.A.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>DOMAKYAAREH (MRS), J. A. <o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
This
is an appeal against the judgment of the Circuit Court, Dunkwa-On-Offin dated
17th June, 2016.&nbsp; From the Writ
of Summons, Statement of Claim and the evidence adduced before the trial court,
the plaintiff/appellant, (hereinafter called the appellant), averred that one
C.K. Ango bought a piece of land from the Ayanfuri Unit Committee in 1990, put
up a Kiosk on the land and operated a chop bar business therein from 1990 until
2006 when he gave same as a gift to one Nana Osei Yaw who is the appellant’s
uncle.&nbsp; The said Osei Yaw who possessed
the land allowed his daughter (who is the appellant’s wife) to operate her
hairdressing business in the kiosk on the land and later gave same to the
appellant absolutely to work on.&nbsp; In
March 2014, the appellant decided to erect a structure on the land and because
the land in dispute is close to the Dunkwa-Ayanfuri High way, he wrote to the
Highways Authority to permit him to put up a structure and same was
granted.&nbsp; When he begun the said
construction, the defendants tried to stop him and so he informed C.K. Ango who
came with the Unit Committee of Diaso and informed the defendants that the land
in dispute was not for them as the Unit Committee had given the land in dispute
to C.K. Ango; that when the defendants would not budge, he sued them in court
which culminated in the instant appeal.&nbsp;
At the court below, the appellant claimed four reliefs namely: -<o:p></o:p>1. An order to declare him as the rightful person
who has been legitimately permitted by the Ghana Highway Authority and the
Upper Denkyira West District Assembly to occupy the piece of land in dispute;<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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An
order to compel the defendant to pay him GH⊄2,000.00 in respect of his foundation trenches which defendant has
destroyed, and the blocks which she had damaged together with his shirt which
defendant tore and caused damage to;<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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