NANA ASIAMAH ABOAGYE vs. ABUSUAPANYIN KWAKU APAU ASIAM [2018]DLSC2486

Date	2018-10-24
Suit No.
Citation No.	[2018]DLSC2486

ADINYIRA (MRS) JSC (PRESIDING)

YEBOAH JSC

BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC APPAU JSC AND PWAMANG JSC

JOSEPH ACHEAMPONG FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT.

MATTHEW OTENG FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT.

[2018]DLSC2486
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">NANA ASIAMAH ABOAGYE<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">vs.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">ABUSUAPANYIN KWAKU APAU
ASIAM<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[SUPREME
COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;">SUIT
NO:&nbsp; CIVIL&nbsp;APPEAL NO.
J4/10/2016&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:
24TH&nbsp;OCTOBER, 2018<o:p></o:p>

</div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">JOSEPH ACHEAMPONG FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT.<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;">MATTHEW OTENG
FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p>

</div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">CORAM:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">ADINYIRA (MRS) JSC
(PRESIDING), YEBOAH JSC, BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">APPAU JSC AND PWAMANG JSC<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: 1.5pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none; padding: 0cm;">&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; JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">&nbsp;PWAMANG
JSC:-<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">This case takes
its roots from an earlier case filed in the High Court, Accra, Suit No. 2539/91
intituled Nana Asiamah Aboagye v 1.Nana Addo Dankwa III, 2. The
Attorney-General. The plaintiff in that case claimed on behalf of four
families&nbsp; for ownership and possession of a parcel of land at Larteh
adjoining the Okuapeman Secondary School. He contended that the land was the
ancestral land of the four families but unknown to them the predecessor of Nana
Addo Dankwa III, Akropong Omanhene Nana Kwame Fori, purported to grant it out
in the 1960s for the building of Okuapeman Secondary School without their
consent. Their case was that the school occupied only a portion of the land and
they did not know their whole land had been taken until their activities on the
land were challenged by subjects of the Akropong Stool and a search at Lands
Commission revealled that the land had indeed been given out, hence the suit.
The families were; Okyeame Kwame Asiem, Nana Obeng Kwabena, Wontumi and
Akyeampong Families all of Larteh-Ahenease. The High Court gave judgment on
27th September, 2002 in favour of the plaintiff. At the trial, plaintiff
tendered a plan of the land on which the boundaries of land belonging to each
of the four families as well as Okuapeman Secondary School were delineated. The
total land of the families came to approximately 369 acres while the land of
Okuapeman Secondary School was approximately 37.60 acres.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.55pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>