EBENEZER ARYEE QUAYE vs. NII ASHONG KOJO III & 3 ORS [2019]DLHC16499

Date	2019-10-23
Suit No.	SUIT NO. LD/1391/2016
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC16499

HIS LORDSHIP K. A. GYIMAH

YAW AGYEI AFFRAM FOR PLAINTIFF.

MARTIN KPEBU WITH TATA KOSI FOLIBA AND BENEDICTA MAWUSI FIANOO FOR DEFENDANTS.

[2019]DLHC16499
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >EBENEZER ARYEE
QUAYE <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>NII
ASHONG KOJO III &amp; 3 ORS <o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

SUIT NO. LD/1391/2016&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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: 23RD&nbsp;OCTOBER 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>YAW AGYEI AFFRAM FOR PLAINTIFF.<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;Plaintiff’s Case<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The plaintiff
describes himself as a businessman who operates a plumbing enterprise. It is
his case that in May 1995, he acquired a piece of land from the Nii Amoah
Okromansah family of Amrahia acting by its lawful head and representative Nii
Amoahfio II with the consent and concurrence of the principal members of the
family. His grantor demarcated the land for him and he was put in physical
possession of the land and he marked his land with corner pillars.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;It is the
plaintiff’s case that he proceeded to register his land documents at the Land
Registry where his grant was plotted on the Land Registry Map.&nbsp; They then proceeded to publish his grant in
the newspaper as part of the processes leading to the issuance of a Land Title
Certificate. The plaintiff asserts that he has been in undisturbed possession
of the land for all these years until his possession was disturbed by the 2nd,
3rd and 4th defendants sometime in 2016.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;It is the
plaintiff’s case that he reported the acts of trespass to the police and he
later got to know that the said trespassers had supposedly been granted his
land by the 1st defendant. The plaintiff asserts that any such grant
to the defendants is void as he has a valid grant from the Nii Amoah Okromansah
family of Amrahia. The plaintiff further states that quite apart from the fact
that he has a valid grant, he has been on the land since 1995 and the Nii Amoah
Okromansah family is estopped by his adverse possession as well as the
Limitations Act from subsequently purporting to alienate his land to any of the
defendants.&nbsp; The plaintiff therefore
claimed the following reliefs against the defendants:<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;
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Declaration of title to all that piece
or parcel of land situate at Amrahia, Accra containing an approximate area of
0.5acre more or less and bounded on the North West by Lessor’s land measuring
120 feet more or less, on the East by Lessor’s land measuring 190 feet more or
less, on the South by proposed road measuring 120 feet more or less, and on the
South West by proposed road measuring 40 feet, 30 feet, 50 feet respectively
more or less.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;
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