NATHAN KUDJO AMOH AND FAUSTINA EDEM ADDO vs. LAWRENCE NAATEY TEKPER AND POWEL ABRAHAM ASIRIFI GOGO [2019]DLHC8787

NATHAN KUDJO AMOH AND FAUSTINA EDEM ADDO vs. LAWRENCE NAATEY TEKPER AND POWEL A... [2019]DLHC8787

Date	2019-01-16
Suit No.	SUIT NO. FAL/806/13
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC8787

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE ANTHONY OPPONG

MR. GEORGE AGBEKO ESQ. FOR PLAINTIFFS

MR. NATHANIEL MYERS ESQ. FOR DEFENDANTS

[2019]DLHC8787
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >NATHAN KUDJO AMOH AND FAUSTINA
EDEM ADDO<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>LAWRENCE NAATEY TEKPER
AND POWEL ABRAHAM ASIRIFI GOGO<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT,
ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT NO. FAL/806/13&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:
16TH JANUARY, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR.
GEORGE AGBEKO ESQ., FOR PLAINTIFFS&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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MR.
NATHANIEL MYERS ESQ., FOR DEFENDANTS<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE ANTHONY OPPONG<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%;
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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Plaintiffs who are husband and wife claim to have purchased
the disputed land situate, lying and being at Meledzor, Accra from Samuel Nai
Donkor whom they claimed to be the head and lawful representative of Nii Marley
family of Amrahia, Accra. The size of this disputed land Plaintiffs claimed to
have bought was stated as 0.24 acre and the alleged acquisition took place in June
2010.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Plaintiffs pleaded that upon the acquisition they exercised
overt acts of possession by erecting corner pillars at the four corners of the
land with 2nd Plaintiff’s name clearly embossed on the pillars. They
also deposited sand with the intention to develop the land.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Plaintiffs occasionally cleared the land of weeds and this
situation continued from 2010 when the land was acquired till 2013 when 1st
Defendant entered the land and removed the corner pillars amid resistance from Plaintiffs.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In paragraph 8 of the Amended Statement of Claim filed on 11th
February 2016 Plaintiffs averred that “8. At
the time 1st Defendant entered the Plaintiffs land in the year 2013,
the Plaintiffs had already been granted the land by the Nii Marley family of
Amrahia in the year 2010 and the land was in possession of the Plaintiffs before
1st Defendant trespassed on it in 2013”.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Plaintiffs contended that the land was gifted to the Nii Maaley
family of Amrahia by the Nii Amoah Okromansah family of Labadi and there is in
existence a statutory declaration regarding the gift of the land and the land
in dispute has been in the possession of the Nii Maaley family of Amrahia from
time immemorial and the Nii Marley family has made several grants to
prospective developers who have developed their respective lands without
challenge from anybody since the year 2003.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Plaintiffs also alluded to a judgment delivered by High
Court, Coram Ocran J whereby the interest or title in the disputed land being
in the Nii Marley family was declared.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Plaintiffs therefore sued Defendants and sought by way of
reliefs:<o:p></o:p>a.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A
declaration that Plaintiffs are the owners of all that piece or parcel of land
situate, lying and being at Maledzor, in the Ad. M.A. District of Greater
Accra, bounded on the North-East by lessor’s land measuring 106.1 feet more or
less; on the South-West by lessor’s land measuring 101.0 feet more or less; on
the North-West by lessor’s land measuring 101.1 feet more or less and covering</main>