AMOABENG FREMPONG JENISON vs. JOHNSON AGBA, DANIEL TETTEY AND ENOCK TEI APPERKON [2019]DLHC9144

Date	2019-01-25
Suit No.	SUIT NO LDA/0017/17
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC9144

REBECCA N. S. SITTIE (MRS) ‘J’

HANS KOFI ADDE FOR PLAINTIFF/ RESPONDENT

SAMUEL N. KUDJOE FOR DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS

[2019]DLHC9144
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >AMOABENG FREMPONG JENISON<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>JOHNSON AGBA, DANIEL TETTEY AND ENOCK TEI APPERKON<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT (LAND DIVISION 10), 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 LDA/0017/17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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:
25TH JANUARY, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>HANS KOFI ADDE 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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SAMUEL
N. KUDJOE FOR DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS <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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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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N. S. SITTIE (MRS) ‘J’<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>This
is an appeal from the judgment of the District Court Dodowa in Suit No A1/48/14
delivered on the 29th May 2017 in favour of Plaintiff. 3rd
Defendant being dissatisfied with the judgment filed a Notice of Appeal on the
14th June 2017 with seven (7) grounds of Appeal. The Record of
Appeal was submitted to this Court on 6th November 2017. In this Appeal,
Plaintiff/Respondent will be referred to as Plaintiff and 3rd
Defendant/Appellant will be referred as Defendant.<o:p></o:p>Plaintiff
sued the 1st and 2nd Defendants for declaration of title
to land situate at a place commonly known and called Apetetsi (Apertekyi) at
Dodowa measuring 115.0 feet x 100.0 feet x 198.9 feet x 198.1 feet, recovery of
possession and perpetual injunction against Defendants and their agents. The Court
ordered that 3rd Defendant be joined to the suit after 1st
and 2nd Defendants informed the Court that they were placed on the
land by one Enoch Tei Aperkon. The Court suo
motu joined Enoch Tei Aperkor as 3rd Defendant. The 3rd
Defendant counterclaimed for general damages for trespass and perpetual
injunction. After trial judgement was entered in favour of Plaintiff.<o:p></o:p>Plaintiff’s
case is that he acquired the land in dispute from the Tetteh Ayernor Family
which was later claimed by Samuel Asare and Victor Teye Mensah as their own in
2007; Plaintiff said he paid for the land to them. Plaintiff said he went into
possession and regularly got his grantors who were his caretakers to weed the
land. Plaintiff said in 2013 his grantor PW1 informed him that some people had
placed a red band around the land and threatened death to any person who
entered the land. <o:p></o:p>3rd
Defendant denied Plaintiff’s claim and stated that he purchased the land from
Numo Kwadwo Yumu in 1989 and built on a portion of the land while rearing
animals including poultry on a portion of the land as well as planting various
crops. 3rd Defendant said he had been in possession until Plaintiff
trespassed by uprooting his pillars. 3rd Defendant said he
subsequently granted 1st and 2nd Defendants permission to
use a portion of the land for their workshop in order to protect the land. 3rd
Defendant claimed that Plaintiff’s grantor does not own any land in the area of
3rd Defendant’s land. 3rd Defendant counterclaimed for
damages for trespass and perpetual injunction against Plaintiff, his grantors
and any persons claiming through them. <o:p></o:p>The
issues set down for trial were:<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Whether or not Plaintiff’s grantor own land
in the area where the land in dispute is?<o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Whether or not the land in dispute belongs to
Plaintiff’s grantor?<o:p></o:p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Whether or not the sale of the land in
dispute by Plaintiff’s grantor was illegal and void?<o:p></o:p>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Whether or not the land in dispute belongs to
Defendant’s grantor?<o:p></o:p>