HARRISON GOGOE AMOAH vs. CHARLES KWABENA BOAMPONG, EVELYN GLIKPO AND PETER NARH [2019]DLHC9016

Date	2019-11-22
Suit No.	SUIT NO. LD/0759/19
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC9016

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (MRS)

ABEIKU DICKSON FOR PLAINTIFF

ROBERT YARTEY FOR 1ST DEFENDANT

[2019]DLHC9016
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >HARRISON GOGOE AMOAH<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>CHARLES KWABENA BOAMPONG,
EVELYN GLIKPO AND PETER NARH<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/0759/19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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:
22ND NOVEMBER, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>ABEIKU DICKSON FOR PLAINTIFF&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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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ROBERT
YARTEY FOR 1ST DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p>

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HER
LADYSHIP JUSTICE BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (MRS)<o:p></o:p>

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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Before me is an application for an
order of interlocutory injunction to restrain the Defendants from developing
the land in dispute pending the determination of this suit.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In his pleadings and affidavit in
support of the instant application, the Plaintiff claimed that he first
acquired the land in dispute from Nii Okang Family in 1986 per Exhibit ‘A’.
Subsequently, he attorned tenancy to the Afutu Brempong family when they won a
suit against his grantors. &nbsp;In 2013, he
was given a document, Exhibit ‘B’, by the Affutu Brempong family.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The Plaintiff claims he took possession
of the land in dispute after acquiring same in 1986 and put up a single room
self-contained structure on it as shown in Exhibit ‘C’. &nbsp;According to the Plaintiff, the 2nd
Defendant began her acts of encroachment in 2015 by holding church services in
a pavilion on a section of his land. Subsequently, she constructed a single
room on the land as shown in Exhibit ‘F’. Plaintiff claims he warned her to
quit the land but she refused.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>According to the Plaintiff, the 1st
Defendant has started developing a section of his land. Plaintiff claims he
reported 1st Defendant to the Adenta Police who cautioned both
parties to stop work but 1st Defendant persisted in his acts of
trespass. Plaintiff further claims the 3rd Defendant has also began
to develop a section of his land.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The 1st Defendant filed an
affidavit in opposition to the Plaintiff’s application for interlocutory
injunction. &nbsp;He claimed that he purchased
the land in dispute from the late Nii Okang Abraham who had previously acquired
it from the Nii Afutu Brempong family in 2006. &nbsp;He further claimed that his vendor was in the
process of registering his grant in order to make a formal conveyance to him
when he died. A search he conducted at the Survey and Mapping Division of Lands
Commission before acquiring the land in dispute showed that the land had been
plotted in favour of his vendor.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In his supplementary affidavit in
support of the application, for injunction Plaintiff claimed that the 1st
Defendant had continued with the construction of his structure while the
injunction application was pending and attached Exhibit ‘H’ series as evidence
of these developments.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>