POWELL ABRAHAM ASIRIFI vs. EDLORM HOUSING GHANA LIMITED [2019]DLHC8972

Date	2019-04-30
Suit No.	SUIT NO.: LD/1019/2018
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC8972

BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE E. K. BOSOMPEM APENKWAH J.

NASHIRU YUSSIF FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

MARTIN KPEBU FOR DEFENDANT/APPLICANT

[2019]DLHC8972
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >POWELL ABRAHAM ASIRIFI<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>EDLORM HOUSING GHANA
LIMITED<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[HIGH COURT (LAND DIVISION 5), 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.: LD/1019/2018&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE:
30TH APRIL, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>NASHIRU YUSSIF FOR
PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MARTIN
KPEBU FOR DEFENDANT/APPLICANT<o:p></o:p>

</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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BEFORE
HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE E. K. BOSOMPEM APENKWAH J.<o:p></o:p>

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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>This
is an application by the Defendant/Applicant praying this court to set aside
the writ of summons and statement of claim of Plaintiff/Respondent on grounds
of lack of capacity to institute the present action.&nbsp; Applicant’s counsel relied on the motion
paper and supporting affidavit with its copious exhibits as well as the
supplementary affidavit which also has copious exhibits annexed to it.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Counsel
for Plaintiff/Respondent opposed the application and filed an affidavit in
opposition with exhibits annexed to it as well as supplementary affidavit in
opposition which also contained exhibits.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>A
BRIEF BACKGROUND TO THE PLAINTIFF’S ACTION<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
Plaintiff described himself as the head of the Nii Amoah Okromansah Family of
La and brought this action through an attorney Enoch Nii Anum Ashirifi of H/No.
G268/0 La, Accra against the Defendant company seeking the reliefs of
declaration of title, recovery of possession and perpetual injunction together
with damages for trespass against the Defendant company.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>On
being served with the writ, the Defendant entered conditional appearance and
subsequently followed up with the instant application to set aside the writ of
summons and accompanying statement of claim on grounds of lack of capacity on
the part of Plaintiff to institute the action.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>A
summary of Counsel for Applicant’s submission is as follows:<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
Plaintiff/Respondent had in the past instituted actions against other persons
and was found by the court to lack capacity.&nbsp;
He exhibited some of these decisions as exhibit AK2, AK3, and AK6.&nbsp; And apart from these previous decisions the
Plaintiff himself in his pleadings in suit number FAL 110/9 exhibited as
exhibit AK1 and at paragraph 9 admitted that one Nii Amoafio II who is
Plaintiff he</main>