GEORGE WEBADUAH-KUYI AND CECILIA WEBADUAH-KUYI vs. MR. OSEI [2019]DLHC16500

Date	2019-10-14
Suit No.	SUIT NO. LD/1591/2016
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC16500

HIS LORDSHIP K. A. GYIMAH

DELA BLAGOGEE WITH LOUIS BOAKYE CLAUDIA NKANSAH FRED BOAKYE AND EDINAM KOJO ASAMOAH FOR PLAINTIFFS.

AURELIUS AWUKU WITH AFRAKOMA BOATENG FOR THE DEFENDANT.

[2019]DLHC16500
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >GEORGE
WEBADUAH-KUYI AND CECILIA WEBADUAH-KUYI<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MR. OSEI&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <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/1591/2016&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;&nbsp;DATE: 14TH&nbsp;OCTOBER 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>DELA BLAGOGEE WITH LOUIS BOAKYE CLAUDIA NKANSAH FRED
BOAKYE AND EDINAM KOJO ASAMOAH FOR PLAINTIFFS.<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;Plaintiffs’ Case<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The plaintiffs are
citizens of Ghana and a married couple. It is the plaintiffs’ case that they
acquired the land in dispute which amounted to two plots in 2007 as evidenced
by a deed of indenture dated the 24th day of July 2007 between one
Ebenezer Tetteh Anteh and the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs aver that since
acquiring the land, they have exercised overt acts of ownership and possession
by constructing a dwelling house on one half portion of the land which they
have been living in since 2008. On the other half of the land, they have
planted food crops and economic trees and have also put petty traders with
kiosks and containers on the frontage of the land. It is this other half that
the defendant has trespassed. The plaintiffs assert that until the defendant’s
trespass, they had been in undisturbed possession of the land.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The second
plaintiff asserts that on or about the 29th day of November, 2016,
the defendant brought some cement blocks onto the land in dispute and informed
the plaintiffs that the land had been sold to him by one T.T. and Lawrence
Armah Anteh. When the defendant repeated this act, the plaintiffs reported his
actions to the Ashongman Police Station where both parties produced their
respective title documents.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The plaintiff
asserts that at the Police Station, the said T.T. in the company of Lawrence
Armah Anteh and one Sarah Deedei Tetteh, upon looking at the plaintiffs’
documents, informed them that their grantor did not have the right to sell the
land and therefore the documents were fake. According to the plaintiffs, the Police
accepted the pronouncement of the defendant’s grantors and called off the
meeting.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;It is the
plaintiffs’ case that despite several warnings to the defendant to desist from
the acts complained of, the defendant has persisted in his acts of trespass
with impunity, harassment and intimidation.&nbsp;
The plaintiffs assert that the actions of the defendant are causing them
great distress and hardship and from all indications the defendant and his
agents will not stop their unlawful activities of intimidations and harassment
unless restrained by the Court. The plaintiffs further assert that they bought
the land in good faith without any encumbrances or defects whatsoever from
their grantor or anyone else. The plaintiffs further state that they are bona
fide purchasers for value without notice.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The plaintiffs
therefore claimed the following reliefs against the defendant:<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;a)