GIFTY ELEANOR AYIKAI TAGOE vs. NANA ADU FRIMPONG [2019]DLCA8679

Date	2019-07-31
Suit No.	CIVIL APEPAL NO.: HI/261/2018
Citation No.	[2019]DLCA8679

HONYENUGA JA (PRESIDING)

SOWAH JA

POKU-ACHEAMPONG JA

MR. KOJO ADDEAH SARFO FOR APPELLANT.

MR. ODARTEY LAMPTEY FOR RESPONDENT.

[2019]DLCA8679
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >GIFTY ELEANOR AYIKAI TAGOE<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr>(PLAINTIFF/
 RESPONDENT)<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;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">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;
 padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">
 <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 text-align:center;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
 padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">CIVIL
 APEPAL 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; &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><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;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">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>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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 <p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:
 .0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
 none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
 solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>
 </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>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>Respondent avers further that she was
in undisturbed possession of the land when in December 2009 the Appellant</main>