OPANYIN KWAME ASIEDU MRS THERESA BOAKYE AND FRANK ASIEDU BOAKYE (SUING PER THEIR LAWFUL ATTORNEY NAPOLEON TWUM BARIMA) [2019]DLCA8759

OPANYIN KWAME ASIEDU MRS THERESA BOAKYE AND FRANK ASIEDU BOAKYE (SUING PER THEI... [2019]DLCA8759

Date	2019-05-28
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL: H1/05/2019
Citation No.	[2019]DLCA8759

F. G. KORBIEH JA (PRESIDING)

M. M. AGYEMANG (MRS.) JA

M. A. WOOD (MRS.) JA

AKUA ASARE-MINAKU FOR PLAINTIFF / APPELLANT

CHARLES TETTEH FOR DEFENDANT / RESPONDENT

[2019]DLCA8759
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >OPANYIN KWAME ASIEDU<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr>(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>MRS THERESA BOAKYE AND FRANK ASIEDU BOAKYE (SUING PER THEIR
 LAWFUL ATTORNEY NAPOLEON TWUM BARIMA)<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[COURT
 OF APPEAL, KOFORIDUA]<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">
 CIVIL APPEAL: H1/05/2019&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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 MAY, 2019<o:p></o:p>
 </div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>AKUA ASARE-MINAKU FOR PLAINTIFF / APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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 CHARLES TETTEH FOR
 DEFENDANT / 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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 F. G. KORBIEH JA
 (PRESIDING), M. M. AGYEMANG (MRS.) JA, M. A. WOOD (MRS.) 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="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" 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>AGYEMANG
JA:<o:p></o:p>In this
appeal against the judgment of the High Court Koforidua, delivered on the 24th
day of April 2017, the plaintiff appellant seeks the following alternative
orders: a setting aside of the judgment of the court below with judgment
entered for the plaintiff; alternatively, an order for the distribution of the
residuary estate in accordance with law. <o:p></o:p>The facts of
the suit are sufficiently simple. The plaintiff, the brother of the late
Kingsley Kwadwo Boakye and his customary successor, commenced an action at the
court below against the legal representatives of the late Kingsley Kwadwo
Boakye: his widow and son respectively as first and second defendants. The suit
sought inter alia, a declaration that
house No. J2 Abenase near Oda, called Kyerewaa Villa, <a name="_Hlk8242767">was
the property of the family of Maame Yaa Kyerewaa alias Maame Yaa Anyanyan,&nbsp; damages for trespass, as well as an
injunctive relief against the defendants and their privies. <o:p></o:p></a><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>It was the
case of the plaintiff that the house the subject matter of the suit, was the
property of Maame Yaa Kyerewaa, mother of the plaintiff and eleven others
including the deceased Kingsley Kwadwo Boakye. He alleged, that although the
house referred to as Kyerewaa Villa was put up by his late brother Kingsley
Kwadwo Boakye, he constructed it for their deceased mother Maame Yaa Kyerewaa, on
a portion of land acquired by her, and that the house was named Kyerewaa Villa
in her honour. <o:p></o:p>The plaintiff
recounted that around 1979-1980, the Abenase Town Development Committee was set
up for the purpose of ensuring the development of the &nbsp;Abenase town. The said Committee demarcated
the area of land into plots, and allocated same to the town’s citizens upon
their application. The plaintiff alleged that although each individual was
allocated one plot of land, their mother Maame Yaa Kyerewaa had applied for the
allocation of twelve plots of land to her, because she had twelve children. He
averred that the Town Development Committee, unwilling to give her so much land,
and yet recognizing the large size of her family, granted her six plots of land
instead. &nbsp;For this allocation, Maame
Kyerewaa allegedly presented drinks and a token amount of money to the grantors.
<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>