[2018]DLHC11991 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0">SABINA DUGAN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:32.8pt center 231.25pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" 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="text-align:center"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">ISAAC THOMPSON MENSAH & 2 ORS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" 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 (LAND DIVISION)]<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;"> <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 lang="EN-US" 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/1406/2016 DATE: 31</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 10px;">ST </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">JULY 2018<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:286.5pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" 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: 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">EZRA ALABI BORQUAYE FOR PLAINTIFF <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" 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="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" 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 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">REBECCA N. S. SITTIE (MRS)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="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-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 6pt 0cm 1pt;"> <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:6.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" 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:5.65pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Plaintiff’s case is that she acquired a 0.53 acre plot of land at Adjirigano from Salem Investment Limited in 2003. Plaintiff said in 2014 Defendants trespassed on her land. Plaintiff took out this Writ against Defendants praying for the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.75pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2;tab-stops:41.05pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";letter-spacing:-.05pt">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">A declaration of title to all that piece or parcel of land lying and being at Adjirigano in the Greater Accra Region of the Republic of Ghana and containing an approximate area of 0.200 hectares or 0.494 acres and bounded<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>North<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>Lessor’s<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>land<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>measuring<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>90<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>feet<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>more<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>less<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>on the East by Lessor’s land measuring 270 feet more<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt"> </span>or less on the South- West by proposed road measuring 70 feet more or less on the West by Lessor’s land measuring 240 feet more or less more particularly delineated on the plan attached and thereon edged pink.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify; line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2;tab-stops:41.05pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";letter-spacing:-.05pt">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Recovery<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>possession<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>disputed<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">land.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.65pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2;tab-stops:41.05pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";letter-spacing:-.05pt">3.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Perpetual Injunction restraining Defendants, their agents, assigns, servants, privies, workers or anybody claiming through the Defendants from entering and or developing the land described in the schedule or in any manner interfering with the Plaintiff’s enjoyment or use of the land.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify; line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2;tab-stops:41.05pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";letter-spacing:-.05pt">4.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Costs.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify; line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2;tab-stops:41.05pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";letter-spacing:-.05pt">5.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Damages<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>trespass<span s