AUGUSTINES KOFI DETI AND 3 OTHERS vs. DICKSON DETTI AND ANOTHER [2018]DLHC3992

Date	2018-06-25
Suit No.	SUIT NO. E5/02/2018
Citation No.	[2018]DLHC3992

ERIC BAAH JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT

EMILE ATSU AGBAKPE FOR PLAINTIFFS/APPLICANT

ROBERTSON KPATSA FOR DEFENDANT ABSENT

[2018]DLHC3992
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >AUGUSTINES KOFI DETI AND
3 OTHERS<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>DICKSON DETTI AND
ANOTHER<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, HO]<o:p></o:p>SUIT
NO. E5/02/2018&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;25TH JUNE 2018 <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>EMILE
ATSU AGBAKPE FOR PLAINTIFFS/APPLICANT
<o:p></o:p>ROBERTSON KPATSA FOR
DEFENDANT ABSENT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>ERIC
BAAH JUSTICE OF THE
HIGH COURT <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>RULING<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>Order
25 of C.I. 47 mandates the court to grant an order of interlocutory injunction
where same is considered just or convenient. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Since
the application is by motion, it falls to be determined
based
on the affidavits and annexures filed by the parties. The respondents; even
though served with applicants' motion (through their counsel) failed or refused
to file any affidavit in opposition. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
respondents are deemed to admit the depositions of the applicants in their
affidavit, albeit sub silentio. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
applicants' depositions allege that the respondents' father, who was the head
of the Deti family "sold the entire land to prospective developers and
developed portions of the land with the proceed of the sale" – paragraph 6
of affidavit in support. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>He
was alleged also to have purchased other properties with the proceeds from the
family land sold. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
applicants contend that the portions of the family land developed by the
respondent's late father, Seth Kwami Deti, and the properties he acquired from
the sale of family property, remain the property of the family. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>