KASSEKE AKOTO DUGBARTEY SAPPOR (SUBST. BY ATTEH SAPPOR SUING FOR HIMSELF AND ON BEHALF OF THE SAPPOR KOLEH WE CLAN OF ALAVANYO ADA-FOAH) (PLAINTIFF/ APPELLANT) vs. VERY REV. SOLOMON DUGBARTEY SAPPOR (SUBST. BY EBENEZER TEKPERTEY AKWETEY SAPPOR), WILLIAM TETTEH SAPPOR, FREDRICK NMONMLOTEY SAPPOR, FRED DUGBARTEY SAPPOR AND ALHAJI TUDJANI (DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS) [2019]DLCA7782

KASSEKE AKOTO DUGBARTEY SAPPOR (SUBST. BY ATTEH SAPPOR SUING FOR HIMSELF AND ON... [2019]DLCA7782

Date	2019-04-11
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO.: H1/59/2014
Citation No.	[2019]DLCA7782

F. KUSI-APPIAH JA (PRESIDING)

B. F. ACKAH-YENSU JA

TANKO AMADU JA

MOHAMMED SALNOON FOR DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS

MR. E. SAM CRABBE WITH NARSH K. ADJEI FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT

[2019]DLCA7782
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KASSEKE AKOTO
DUGBARTEY SAPPOR (SUBST. BY ATTEH SAPPOR SUING FOR HIMSELF AND ON BEHALF OF THE
SAPPOR KOLEH WE CLAN OF ALAVANYO ADA-FOAH)<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/ APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>VERY REV.
SOLOMON DUGBARTEY SAPPOR (SUBST. BY EBENEZER TEKPERTEY AKWETEY SAPPOR), WILLIAM
TETTEH SAPPOR, FREDRICK NMONMLOTEY SAPPOR, FRED DUGBARTEY SAPPOR AND ALHAJI
TUDJANI<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS)<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.: H1/59/2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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:
11TH APRIL, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MOHAMMED
SALNOON FOR DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MR.
E. SAM CRABBE WITH NARSH K. ADJEI FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT<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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F.
KUSI-APPIAH JA (PRESIDING), B. F. ACKAH-YENSU JA, TANKO AMADU JA<o:p></o:p>

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</div>B. ACKAH-YENSU, JA<o:p></o:p>This
appeal is from the judgment of the High Court (Land Division) Accra, delivered
on 29th November, 2013 wherein the plaintiffs’ case was dismissed.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In
the High Court, Kasseke Akoto Dugbartey Sappor, who was subsequently
substituted by Atteh Sappor (alternately referred to as “1st
Plaintiff”, or “Plaintiff/Appellant”), together with two other plaintiffs,
Samuel Dugbartey Sappor and Joseph Narh Sappor, claimed against the Defendants/Respondents,
inter alia, for a declaration that
the purported sale of the family property comprising of Plots Nos. 103 and 104,
Adabraka, Accra was null, void and of no legal effect.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
antecedents to the said case, in a nutshell, are as follows:<o:p></o:p>The
late Margaret Korkor Dugbartey Sappor died in 1952 possessed of a lot of
properties including the property in dispute, Plots Nos. 103 and 104, Adabraka,
Accra.&nbsp; It is evident from an affidavit
deposed to by one Grace Plange (see page 468 of the Record of Appeal) that
Margaret Korkor Dugbartey Sappor died testate and willed her estate to the said
Grace Plange as the sole legatee.&nbsp; It
appears however that the property in dispute was not one of the properties
devised to Grace Plange.&nbsp; At any rate, Grace
Plange explicitly expressed her disinterestedness in the property in dispute
for the reason that she was content with what she got from the Will of the late
Margaret Korkor Dugbartey Sappor.&nbsp; She
accordingly gave authority to the head of the Sappor family at Ada Foah, Very
Reverend Solomon Dugbartey Sappor, to obtain Letters of Administration to
administer the properties of Margaret Korkor Dugbartey Sappor which were not
mentioned in her Will.&nbsp; By this, even if
Grace Plange inherited the property in dispute, she ceded her interest therein
in favour of the Sappor family.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
Sappor family in the quest to find all other properties which belonged to the
late Margaret Korkor Dugbartey Sappor, granted a Power of Attorney to one Afi
Binga Dugbartey Sappor who apparently lived with the late Margaret Korkor
Dugbartey Sappor.&nbsp; The purpose for the
grant of the Power of Attorney was to gather and manage all other properties
belonging to the late Margaret Korkor Dugbartey Sappor.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In
May 2006, the 1st – 4th Defendants/Respondents obtained
the grant of Letters of Administration and in March 2007, the family property in
dispute was vested in the 2nd and 4th
Defendants/Respondents.&nbsp; Thereafter, the
2nd and 4th Respondents executed a contract of sale of
the property in dispute to the 5th Defendant/Respondent.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
1st to 4th Defendants/Respondents subsequently realized
that Afi Binga Dugbartey Sappor had executed a title deed in her name.&nbsp; The said Respondents consequently sued Afi
Binga Dugbartey Sappo</main>