ELIZABETH TEI, REGINA TEI AND JOSEPH TETEY TEI vs. EMMANUEL AYITEY SOWAH AND MARGARET ABAM AKRONG [2018]DLHC8812

ELIZABETH TEI, REGINA TEI AND JOSEPH TETEY TEI vs. EMMANUEL AYITEY SOWAH AND MA... [2018]DLHC8812

Date	2018-03-14
Suit No.	SUIT NO. BMISC/665/10
Citation No.	[2018]DLHC8812

HIS LORDSHIP K. A. GYIMAH JUSTICE

NICHOLAS ADDAE TWENEBOAH FOR PLAINTIFFS.

ADJEI LARTEY WITH MUDA ADE LAWAL FOR DEFENDANTS.

[2018]DLHC8812
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ELIZABETH TEI, REGINA TEI AND JOSEPH TETEY TEI<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>EMMANUEL AYITEY SOWAH AND MARGARET ABAM AKRONG<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT,
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SUIT NO. BMISC/665/10&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE:
14TH MARCH 2018<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>NICHOLAS ADDAE TWENEBOAH FOR PLAINTIFFS.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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ADJEI LARTEY WITH MUDA ADE LAWAL FOR DEFENDANTS.<o:p></o:p>

</div><a name="_Hlk41381137">CORAM:<o:p></o:p></a>HIS LORDSHIP
K. A. GYIMAH JUSTICE<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Introduction<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>On 30th November
2009, the Circuit Court sitting in Accra presided over by Her Honour Mrs.
Patience Mills Tetteh (as she then was) gave judgment in Suit No. C1/17/08; Emmanuel
Ayitey Sowah &amp; anor v. Elizabeth Amaney Teye where she declared on
page 7 of the judgment that the plaintiffs (defendants in this suit) are
absolute owners of the property in dispute.&nbsp;&nbsp;
The said judgment was admitted in evidence in this suit as exhibit C.
The said Elizabeth Ayitey Sowah is the predecessor in title of the plaintiffs
in this suit.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In arriving at her
decision, the learned judge considered two main documents – a tenancy agreement
between Margaret Abam and D. Tei George (which was tendered in evidence in this
suit by the plaintiffs as exhibit D and by the defendants as exhibit 3) and a
receipt from Margaret Abam to D. Tei George (which was also tendered in
evidence in this case by the plaintiffs as exhibit B and the defendants as
exhibit 4).&nbsp; The learned judge in analysing
the said documents, noted at page 6 of the judgment as follows:<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>“These
two documents indicate that there was a purported sale of land first in August
1994 before the tenancy agreement in February 1995. Whether the sale went
through or not, the two documents cannot refer to the same and one property.
There is a land without a building and there is another land with an
uncompleted building.&nbsp; The subject matter
of this suit is the land with the uncompleted building. It makes sense that the
land with the uncompleted building is the one the tenancy agreement is based on
and since the tenancy agreement incorporated the proceeds from the purported
land sale, no land was actually sold to defendant’s husband.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Plaintiffs’ Case<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>It must be noted
that this judgment was not appealed against. However, on 2nd June
2010, the plaintiffs suing as the administrators of the estate of David Tei
George (deceased) issued a writ of summons claiming the following reliefs
against the defendants:<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;
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