FELICIA NOVIENYO DOTSE AND PATIENCE A. DOTSE vs. DANIEL MCKORLEY AND COLONIAL PROPERTIES [2019]DLHC9012

FELICIA NOVIENYO DOTSE AND PATIENCE A. DOTSE vs. DANIEL MCKORLEY AND COLONIAL P... [2019]DLHC9012

Date	2019-04-05
Suit No.	SUIT NO. LD/0787/16
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC9012

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (MRS)

A. T. TAMAKLOE FOR PLAINTIFFS

ALHAJI FAROUK SEIDU FOR DEFENDANTS

[2019]DLHC9012
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >FELICIA NOVIENYO DOTSE AND
PATIENCE A. DOTSE<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>DANIEL MCKORLEY AND
COLONIAL PROPERTIES<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[HIGH COURT (LAND DIVISION), 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/0787/16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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:
5TH APRIL, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>A. T. TAMAKLOE FOR
PLAINTIFFS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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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ALHAJI
FAROUK SEIDU FOR DEFENDANTS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>

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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The Plaintiffs, Felicia Novienyo Dotse
and Patience A. Dotse, issued a writ against the Defendants, Daniel Mc Korley
and Colonial Properties for declaration of title, recovery of possession and
perpetual injunction restraining the Defendants from entering onto the Plaintiff’s
land. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Plaintiffs’ case as gleaned from their
statement of claim is that sometime in the year 2006 the 1st Plaintiff
acquired a parcel of land measuring 0.67 acre situate at Mpehuasem (East Legon
from the Sanshie family of La.&nbsp; Upon
acquisition of the said land, she was issued with a site plan and she
immediately took possession of the land and erected a fence wall around
it.&nbsp; She subsequently divided the land
into two by constructing a wall to separate one plot from the other.&nbsp; She then instructed her grantors to prepare
two separate leases in the names of the 2nd Plaintiff and herself.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>According to Plaintiffs, the 1st
Plaintiff’s land is described as:<o:p></o:p>“All that piece or parcel of land known as
Plot No. 70A containing an approximate area of 0.33 acre situated at Mpehuasem
in East Legon in the Accra metropolis in the Greater Accra Region of the
Republic of Ghana and lying to the East of Nii Obodai Street and bounded on the
North by Plot Number 72A measuring 128 feet more or less, on the South by Nii
Obodaifio Close measuring 137 feet more or less, on the East by Plot No. 1
measuring 93 feet more or less, which parcel of land is more particularly
delineated on the site plan attached to the 1st Plaintiff’s lease
dated 31st March, 2009” <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The 2nd Plaintiff’s land is
described as;<o:p></o:p>“All that piece or parcel of land known
as Plot No. 72A containing an approximate area of 0.34 acre situated at
Mpehuasem in East Legon in the Accra metropolis aforesaid lying to the East of
Nii Obodaifio Street and bounded on the North by Plot No. 74A measuring 125
feet more or less, on the South by Plot No. 70A measuring 128 feet more or less
on the East by Plot No. 11 measuring 110 feet more or less and on the West by
Nii Obodaifio Street measuring 124 feet more or less and which parcel of land
is particularly delineated on the 2nd Plaintiff’s lease dated 31st
day of March, 2009.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Both leases were for a term of
ninety-nine</main>