FRED ROBERT COLEMAN vs. JOE TRIPOLLEN, MR. BOATENG, MR. DANSO, MR. EBENEZER AND MR. ODONKOR [2018]DLSC4131

FRED ROBERT COLEMAN vs. JOE TRIPOLLEN, MR. BOATENG, MR. DANSO, MR. EBENEZER AND... [2018]DLSC4131

Date	2018-11-28
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/41/2018
Citation No.	[2018]DLSC4131

ANSAH JSC (PRESIDING)

DOTSE JSC

BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC

BENIN JSC

PWAMANG JSC

O. K. OSAFO-BUABENG FOR THE DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS.

CHARLES KWESI BENTUM FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT.

[2018]DLSC4131
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >FRED ROBERT COLEMAN<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>JOE TRIPOLLEN, MR.
BOATENG, MR. DANSO, MR. EBENEZER AND MR. ODONKOR<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[SUPREME
COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/41/2018 &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;
DATE: 28TH NOVEMBER, 2018<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>O. K. OSAFO-BUABENG FOR
THE DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CHARLES
KWESI BENTUM FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM: <o:p></o:p>ANSAH JSC (PRESIDING),
DOTSE JSC, BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC, BENIN JSC, AND PWAMANG JSC<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
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</div>DOTSE, JSC:-<o:p></o:p>This is an appeal from the judgment of the
Court of Appeal, Accra dated 7th November 2013. The
Plaintiff/Appellant/Respondent hereafter Plaintiff, suing as the head of family
of Madam Agoe began an action before the High Court, Accra on 16th
December 2010, against the Defendants/Respondents/Appellants hereafter
Defendants &nbsp;in which he claimed the
following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A declaration of title to all that large tract of land or parcel
situate and being at Ankwa Dobro near Nsawam in the Eastern Region and known as
the property of Madam Agoe bounded on the North by Quarcoopome’s land, on the
South by Baddoo’s land on the East by a road to Nsawam, on the West by the Anfran
stream measuring 2300 feet on the North, 3250 feet on the South, 135 feet on
the East, and 1150 feet on the West respectively.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Recovery of possession from the defendants’, Plaintiff’s land.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
General and Special damages.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Perpetual injunction restraining the Defendants, their servants,
agents, workmen and successors in title from interfering in any way whatsoever
with the land in dispute in any manner.<o:p></o:p>FACTS<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
Plaintiff by his statement of claim traces his root of title to one Madam Agoe
whom he contends to be his paternal grandmother and who purchased the said land
from one Baddoo. <o:p></o:p>The
Plaintiff contends that his grandmother acquired the disputed land as far back
as 1908 and the said acquisition is evidenced by an indenture dated 29th
December 1908 which was tendered in evidence as Exhibit ‘A’. The plaintiff’s
case is that after the death of his grandmother in 1931, her son, Christian
Amonou Coleman, Plaintiff’s father and after the demise of the l</main>