[2018]DLHC16360 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><a name="_Hlk146980440"></a><a name="_Hlk146981432"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#00B0F0">AMY ADEDE NYLANDER<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">(PLAINTIFF)</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="margin-right:.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#00B0F0">MRS. DIANA BENISA (DECEASED)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#00B0F0">SUBSTITUTED BY:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#00B0F0">BARBARA BENISA AND COOKIE COFIE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">(DEFENDANTS)</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#4F81BD;mso-themecolor:accent1; mso-style-textoutline-type:solid;mso-style-textoutline-fill-color:#00B0F0; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .75pt;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap:flat;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: round;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit:0%;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align:center;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple;mso-effects-shadow-color:#6E747A;mso-effects-shadow-alpha:43.0%; mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius:3.0pt;mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance:2.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-angledirection:5400000;mso-effects-shadow-align:center; mso-effects-shadow-pctsx:100.0%;mso-effects-shadow-pctsy:100.0%;mso-effects-shadow-anglekx: 0;mso-effects-shadow-angleky:0;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> </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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">SUIT NO: BL/23/2008 DATE: 24<sup>TH</sup> OCTOBER 2018<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">COUNSEL</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">FRANCESCA AWOTWI FOR CHARLES ZWENNES 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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;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;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">RANIA PIANIM FOR JUSTINE AMENUWOR FOR DEFENDANTS <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">CORAM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE ANTHONY OPPONG<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;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;margin-right:.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">In<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>year<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>2007,<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>Plaintiff<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>sued<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>one<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>Mrs.<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>Diana<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>Benisa<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>(now<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>deceased).<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>The reliefs<span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>sought<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>were<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>declaration<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>title<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>0.37-acre<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>piece<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>land<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>Osu,<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>Accra and perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant whether by herself or her servants and/or agents from entering the land or carrying out any building activities<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>any<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>way<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>interfering<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>with<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>Plaintiff’s<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>enjoyment<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>land.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;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;margin-right:.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:5.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">In<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>course<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>time,<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>while<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>suit<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>pending, Defendant<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>died<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>since the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>cause<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>of action survived her,<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>one<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Albert Kofi Benisa,<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>surviving son applied and<span style="letter-spacing:-.9pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:-.9pt"> </span>duly<span style="letter-spacing:-.95pt"> </span>substituted.<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>However,<span style="letter-spacing:-.95pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.95pt"> </span>substituted<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>Defendant,<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt"> </span>Albert<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>Kofi<span style="letter-spacing:-.9pt"> </span>Benisa was subsequently replaced or further substituted by Barbara Benisa and Cookie Cofie who were actually described as the personal representativ