KOFI ATTA GYAMFI vs. YAW BOTAH ATTORNEY OF MADAM AFIA KONADU AND CHARLES WIREDU [2019]DLCA6325

Date	2019-02-26
Suit No.	CRIMINAL APPEAL SUIT NO: H2/02/19
Citation No.	[2019]DLCA6325

M. OWUSU JA (PRESIDING)

DZAMEFE JA

M. WELBOURNE JA

MR. AFRICANUS OWUSU ANSAH FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/APPELLANT

MR. DENNIS KUMAH KWAKYE FOR DEFENDANT/APPLICANT/RESPONDENT

[2019]DLCA6325
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KOFI ATTA GYAMFI<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>YAW BOTAH ATTORNEY OF
MADAM AFIA KONADU AND CHARLES WIREDU<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CRIMINAL
APPEAL SUIT NO: H2/02/19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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FEBRUARY, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p>MR. AFRICANUS OWUSU ANSAH
FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MR.
DENNIS KUMAH KWAKYE FOR DEFENDANT/APPLICANT/RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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M.
OWUSU, JA (PRESIDING), DZAMEFE, JA AND M. WELBOURNE, JA<o:p></o:p>

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</div>DZAMEFE,
JA<o:p></o:p>The plaintiff/appellant
on 22nd July 2015 filed an application for civil writ of summons to
issue at the District Magistrate Court, Nyinahin, Ashanti in his capacity as
the customary successor to Mad. Adwoa Donkor (decd) against the respondent for
title to ownership and recovery of possession to all that house, No. AD 27
Adiembrah near Nyinahin with a vacant plot thereon which was gifted to the
plaintiff/appellant in a document dated 13th February 1988.&nbsp; This gift was before the Donors demise in
October 1988 which the defendant/respondent is putting adverse claims to and
thus preventing plaintiff/appellant from further developing the said property
(House).<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
plaintiff/appellant in his statement of claim aver that the subject matter of
the case was originally acquired by his great grandmother, one Yaa Abaah, about
seventy years ago.&nbsp; Whenthe grandmother
died she was succeeded by her daughter Madam Adwoa Donkor.&nbsp; Adwoa Donkor during her lifetime made a Will
on 13th February 1988 and gifted the said House No. AD27 Adiembra to
him plaintiff/appellant and one Kwame Kune.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>He averred that
later in Adowa Donkor’s life, one Opanin Yaw Brafi who settled in Adiembra and
became her lover was granted&nbsp; a portion
of her land on which he built two single rooms.&nbsp;
Adwoa Donkor and Opanin Brafi are both deceased and the defendants who
are Opanin Brafi’s grandchildren now claim ownership of the said House No. AD
27 Adiembra. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
plaintiff/appellant contends that the property does not belong to the
defendants.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
defendant/respondents in their statement of defence aver that their grandfather
Opanin Yaw Brafi acquired the said land at Adiembra in its original state, a vacant
land from Opanin Kwaku Dan, the then Odikro of Adiembra and developed it into a
building plot and erected five single rooms thereon over 80 years ago. The
defendants aver that their mother who was 71 years at time of filing their
defence was born in the said house which was built long before she was born.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Defendant contend
if there was any Will bequeathing H/No AD 27 Adiembra to plaintiff as they
claim, then it is Mad Adwoa Donkor’s house which is on the land that is
bequeathed to him but not defendants house. In effect the defendant/respondents
denied all the averments of the plaintiff/appellant and counterclaimed for the
following; -<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Title
to ownership and possession to all that building and vacant lands on plot No.
AD 27 Adiembra, a property of their grandfather Opanin Yaw Brafi.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>