GIFTY ELEANOR AYIKAI TAGOE (PLAINTIFF/ RESPONDENT) vs. NANA ADU FRIMPONG (DEFENDANT/APPELLANT) [2019]DLCA7771

GIFTY ELEANOR AYIKAI TAGOE (PLAINTIFF/ RESPONDENT) vs. NANA ADU FRIMPONG (DEFEND... [2019]DLCA7771

Date	2019-07-31
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO.: HI/261/2018
Citation No.	[2019]DLCA7771

HONYENUGA JA (PRESIDING)

SOWAH JA

POKU-ACHEAMPONG JA

MR. KOJO ADDEAH SARFO FOR APPELLANT.

MR. ODARTEY LAMPTEY FOR RESPONDENT.

[2019]DLCA7771
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >GIFTY ELEANOR AYIKAI TAGOE<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/
RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>NANA ADU FRIMPONG<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, 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.: HI/261/2018&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE:
31ST JULY, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR.
KOJO ADDEAH SARFO FOR 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.
ODARTEY LAMPTEY FOR RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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HONYENUGA
JA (PRESIDING), SOWAH JA, POKU-ACHEAMPONG JA<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>POKU- ACHEAMPONG, JA:<o:p></o:p>This
is an appeal in a land matter against a judgment from the High Court (Land
Division) Accra.<o:p></o:p>In
this judgment the Plaintiff/Respondent, shall hereinafter be referred to as the
Respondent, and the Defendant/Appellant as the Appellant.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>FACTS:<o:p></o:p>The
Respondent avers that in 1997 she was granted a piece of land of 0.17 acre by
the Sempe Mensah Family of Ablekuma by the then Head of the Sempe Mensah Family,
Ebenezer Tetteh Annan Nettey, with&nbsp; the
consent and concurrence of the principal members of the said family.<o:p></o:p>The
land is more particularly described in schedule “A” of the Statement of Claim.<o:p></o:p>The
grant, initially a customary grant, was formalised by the Head of Family and
the principal elders and an indenture executed in favour of the Respondent. The
indenture was registered as AR/2404/2000.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>It
is the case of the Respondent that she was put in possession of the land by her
grantors and she erected boundary corner pillars, constructed a fence wall
around the plot and also did a platform for the foundation.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Respondent
avers further that she was in undisturbed possession of the land when in
December 2009 the Appellant and his workers entered on the land and commenced
unauthorised work on the land.<o:p></o:p>