P. A. T. OKINE vs. PATRICK ARYEE ARYEETEY AND NEW JUABEN MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY [2018]DLCA4943

Date	2018-05-29
Suit No.	H1/27/2016
Citation No.	[2018]DLCA4943

K.A. ACQUAYE JA (PRESIDENT)

S. KWEKU GYAN J.A

M. MABEL AGYEMANG (MRS) J.A

[2018]DLCA4943
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color:#00B0F0">P. A. T. OKINE<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B0F0">PATRICK ARYEE ARYEETEY AND NEW JUABEN MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Yu Gothic UI Semilight&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">CORAM:<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">K.A. ACQUAYE JA (PRESIDENT), S. KWEKU
GYAN J.A, M. MABEL AGYEMANG (MRS) J.A<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">ACQUAYE, J.A<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Yu Gothic UI Semilight&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">By
the amended writ of summons and statement of claim the plaintiff laid claim
inter alia to a parcel of land Plot No. 64 Agavenya –Koforidua and special
damages for the unlawful demolition of structures on his land.&nbsp; According to the plaintiff the parcel of land
was gifted to him by his aunt Maame Koryo Wayo in 1995 after which a deed of
gift was prepared on 10th February 2001 which he tendered as Exhibit
A.&nbsp; The plaintiff testified that
immediately after the gift of the land to him for which he provided aseda or
thanks of Gh<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
&quot;Cambria Math&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Yu Gothic UI Semilight&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Cambria Math&quot;">⊄<span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Yu Gothic UI Semilight&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">4.00 he
entered thereon and planted food crops like plantain, maize and oil palm
trees.&nbsp; In 1998 a brother of his aunt
Maame Koryo Wayo called Teye Kwame sued him over the plot of land at the
District Court in Koforidua but Teye Kwame lost the suit so in 2005 he the
plaintiff put up a house with a drug store in front on the land.&nbsp; Whilst he was building the 1st
defendant was also developing his adjoining plot No. 65 but the 1st
defendant later laid adverse claim to his land and trespassed four (4) feet
into his land as a result of which he sued the 1st defendant at the
District Court Koforidua in 2009.&nbsp; During
the pendency of the case the Public Works Department and the New Juaben
Municipal Assembly served notices on the plaintiff and threatened to pull down
his buildings because he had no title deeds and building permit.&nbsp; At that stage he caused a search to be made
at the Lands Commission where he learnt that his aunt Maame Koryo Wayo and her
brother Teye Kwame together with Dede Nartekie had sold his land to the 1st
defendant in 2001.&nbsp; He realized that the
1st defendant was colluding with the 2nd defendant to
take his land from him so he caused his solicitors to write to them but soon
thereafter, the defendants, using the 2nd defendant’s pay loader and
workers went and demolished his dwelling house and chemical store in which
there were drugs together with his domestic animals all worth Gh<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Cambria Math&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Yu Gothic UI Semilight&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">98,03.00
hence his claims.<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Yu Gothic UI Semilight&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Yu Gothic UI Semilight&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">The
1st defendant’s case was that he first bought plot No. 65 from Teye
Kwame in 2001 and later acquired plot No 64 from Maame Koryo Wayo and Madam
Dede Nartike who were sisters.&nbsp; He took
possession of the two plots and proceeded to obtain a site plan and indenture
which he registered at the Lands Commission in Koforidua.&nbsp; The 1st defendant stated that he
obtained a building permit and started building before the plaintiff started
building on his plot No 64.&nbsp; The 1st
defendant testified that he warned the plaintiff not to build but he persisted
so he reported this to the New Juaben Municipal Assembly who demanded the
documents of title and building permits from them but when the plaintiff could
not provide his, the Assembly demolished the plaintiff’s buildings on plot No
64.&nbsp; The 1st defendant denied
that he was responsible for the demolition of the plaintiff’s buildings or that
the buildings and their contents cost Gh<span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Cambria Math&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Yu Gothic UI Semilight&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Cambria Math&quot;">⊄<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Yu Gothic UI Semilight&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">98,038.00.&nbsp; The 1st defendant contented that
the plaintiff’s act of putting up structures on his land contrary to statutory
requirements and warnings from the Municipal Assembly who sinned against public
policy so the plaintiffs’ claims should be dismissed.&nbsp; The 1st defendant then
counterclaimed for general damages against the plaintiff for trespass unto his
land.<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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