LA BUILDERS MERCHANT LTD vs. YAYA ALPHA SUBERU [2019]DLHC16416

Date	2019-05-03
Suit No.	SUIT NO. LD/0295/2019
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC16416

HIS LORDSHIP K. A. GYIMAH

MOHAMMED SAHNOON FOR PLAINTIFF/ APPLICANT.

DAVID AMETEFE FOR DEFENDANT/ RESPONDENT.

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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
color:#00B0F0">LA BUILDERS MERCHANT LTD<i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>

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115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif">(PLAINTIFF/APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

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COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif">COUNSEL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif">MOHAMMED
SAHNOON FOR PLAINTIFF/ APPLICANT.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif">CORAM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">The defendant has however raised a lot
of issues with the documents of the plaintiff claiming among others that the
plaintiff’s documents were fraudulently procured.&nbsp; The defendant has argued that the Land Title
Certificate of the East Dadekotopon Development Trust has been held by the
courts to have been fraudulently procured and as such the plaintiff’s title which
is based on that certificate cannot be a valid title. The defendant therefore
prays for a dismissal of the application.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">In <b><i>Edward Mensah Tawiah and another v. The
Acting Chief Registrar of Lands and another, Suit No. BL431/2006</i></b>,
(exhibit YAS) the High Court presided over by Ofori-Atta J. held that the Land
Title Certificate of the East Dadekotopon Development Trust was procured by
fraud.&nbsp; On appeal, in a consent judgment
adopted by the Court of Appeal as the judgment of the court (attached to
exhibit 7 of the further supplementary affidavit filed on 22<sup>nd</sup> March
2019), the parties compromised the judgment of the High Court. The said consent
judgment was however set aside by Abada J. as having been procured by fraud in
the case of <b><i>Daniel Ofoli Ewermienyo v. Edward Nsiah Akuetteh</i></b>;<b><i>
BMISC 720/2015.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">As a result of some of these decisions,
in suits brought by grantees of the East Dadekotopon Development Trust to
protect their grants, some of the courts have dismissed the suits on grounds of
estoppel. One of such cases – <b><i>Adolph Tetteh Adjei v. Anas Aremeyaw Anas
&amp; another; Suit No. LD/0256/2017</i></b> – came before me when I was
sitting as a vacation judge during the 2016-17 legal vacation and in a ruling
delivered on 31<sup>st</sup> August 2017, I dismissed the plaintiff’s suit on
grounds of estoppel mainly because of the decisions of my senior brothers
Ofori-Atta and Abada JJ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>