VICTORIA AFFUL vs. ADDO WIAFE [2018]DLHC16778

Date	2018-05-30
Suit No.	SUIT NO. LD/0287/2016
Citation No.	[2018]DLHC16778

HIS LORDSHIP EMMANUEL AMO YARTEY (J)

NANA TABIA AMOAKOHENE

KWABENA SARFO MENSAH

[2018]DLHC16778
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="_Hlk152146143"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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color:#00B0F0">&nbsp;</a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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color:#00B0F0">VICTORIA AFFUL<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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color:#00B0F0">ADDO WIAFE<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>&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;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o: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;">

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">NANA TABIA AMOAKOHENE FOR PAUL OPOKU FOR PLAINTIFF<o:p></o: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;">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">KWABENA SARFO
MENSAH FOR THE DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM <o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">HIS LORDSHIP EMMANUEL AMO YARTEY (J)<o:p></o: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: 1pt 0cm;">

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

</div>&nbsp;The brief facts
of this case as captured by the
statement of claim of the
Plaintiff are that:<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The Plaintiff is a businesswoman and
owner in possession of all that parcel of land described in the schedule below
which is situate at New Bortianor, Accra. The
Defendant is a trespasser on Plaintiff’s land who lives in Accra.<o:p></o:p>Plaintiff says that sometime in the
year 2008, she took a grant of land described in the schedule below from Nii
Akotey IV, Dzaasetse and acting Bortianor Mantse who was the lawful
representative of the Bortianor stool with the tacit approval of the principal
members of the said stool.<o:p></o:p>Plaintiff contends that after the said
grant was made to her, she took physical possession of the land which was then
bare and swampy, in the full glare of the whole world including Defendant
without any let or hindrances.<o:p></o:p>Plaintiff says in pursuance of paragraph 3, she obtained
880 trips of laterite soil to fill up the land
which was swampy with weeds.<o:p></o:p>Plaintiff further says that due to the
swampy nature of the land she hired
a caterpillar to level the swamp and the weeds with the said laterite.<o:p></o:p>Plaintiff further
says that she constructed a building foundation
footing on a portion of the land.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Plaintiff avers that