VICTORIA BOSOMPRAH vs. TEMA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, ELIAS AGOBO AND EMMANUEL AGOBO [2019]DLHC4171

VICTORIA BOSOMPRAH vs. TEMA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, ELIAS AGOBO AND EMMANUEL AG... [2019]DLHC4171

Date	2019-01-17
Suit No.	SUIT NO. E1 /14/2011
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC4171

ALEXANDER OSEI TUTU J. SITTING AS A JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT

ANKOMA MENSAH FOR THE PLAINTIFF

OPOKU WARE BOATENG FOR THE FIRST DEFENDANT

[2019]DLHC4171
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >VICTORIA BOSOMPRAH<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>TEMA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, ELIAS AGOBO AND EMMANUEL AGOBO <o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT (LAND DIVISION), TEMA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT&nbsp;NO. E1 /14/2011&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 17TH JANUARY, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:
<o:p></o:p>ANKOMA MENSAH FOR THE
PLAINTIFF <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>CORAM: <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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ALEXANDER OSEI TUTU J. SITTING AS A JUSTICE OF THE HIGH
COURT<o:p></o:p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:1.45pt;margin-right:0in;
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mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>The facts of this case are far from
complex. In 1995, the late Theresa Bosomprah applied for a lease from the first
Defendant to operate a block factory on the land under the name Thexy Block
Works. The Plaintiff is the sister of the said Theresa Bosomprah, who bit the
dust on 3rd May 2002. She took over the running of her sister’s
block factory business in her capacity as the customary successor. The first
Defendant is a statutory corporation in charge of the planning, management and
development of lands in Tema and its environs, including the land located at
Ashaiman being contested in this Court. <o:p></o:p>The Plaintiff used to pay yearly rent
to the first Defendant until in 2007, when the first Defendant refused to
collect the rent from the Plaintiff. On 17th August 2010, the Task
Force of the first Defendant entered the Plaintiff’s land and demolished the
structures on it, following complaints received from the second and third
Defendants and a Judgment of the High Court, Tema. The Plaintiff finds the
demolishing exercise carried out on the land by the first Defendant unlawful
and discriminatory.<o:p></o:p>It was for the above reasons that on 14th
September 2010, the Plaintiff instituted the present action against the
Defendants. The reliefs that were endorsed on her writ of summons were:<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An
order that there existed a proper and lawful tenancy agreement renewable
annually between the plaintiff and the first Defendant.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An
order that the demolishing carried out by the Defendants on 17th
August 2018 was unlawful and discriminatory and must be pronounced as such.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">c.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An
order reinstating the plaintiff as a tenant on the land with full rights.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Perpetual
injunction restraining the defendants from going ahead and re-allocating or
furthering the re-allocation of the subject-matter land </main>