[2018]DLHC16785 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><a name="_Hlk152146143"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">MADAM ADJORKOR ADJIE<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;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;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">VICTOR SETH TAGOE & 3ORS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:168.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua""> </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;line-height:115%;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO. BL 547/2008 DATE: 4<sup>TH</sup> MAY 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;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;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;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">BRIGHT AKWETEY COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENDANTS<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;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;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">HIS LORDSHIP EMMANUEL AMO YARTEY (J)</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></b></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.8pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Per her amended statement of claim dated the 20th day of November, 2009, the Plaintiff claims the following reliefs against the Defendants as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:5.9pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">“All<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>piece<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>parcel<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>land<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>situate<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>lying<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>being<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>Teshie<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>Agblizaa<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>bounded on<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>north<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>lessor’s<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>land<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>measuring<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>62.5<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>ft<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>more<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>less<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>south<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>lessor’s land<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>measuring<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>85.1<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>ft.<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>more<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>less<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>east<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>proposed<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>road<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>measuring<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>29.3 ft. and 27.8 ft. more or less and on the west by lessor’s land measuring 50 ft. more or less and containing an approximate area of 0.10 acre.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="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:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>brief<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>facts<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>case<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>captured<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt"> </span>amended<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>statement<span style="letter-spacing:3.15pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>claim<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>been<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>reproduced below. Thus:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.3pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:76.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height: 115%;tab-stops:77.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.2pt">“1.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> The Plaintiff is the owner of all that piece of land situate at Teshie Ablizaa in the Greater Accra Region.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:76.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-29.5pt;line-height: 115%;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3;tab-stops:77.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-font-width:99%">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The<span style="lette