[2019]DLHC9147 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span class="NoSpacingChar"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0">F. K. A COMPANY LIMITED<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span class="NoSpacingChar"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">(</span></i></b></span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">PLAINTIFF<span class="NoSpacingChar"><b>)</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:center 234.0pt left 386.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">FELICES GARR AND TRUSTEES OF CHRIST POWER ENCOUNTER INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">(</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">DEFENDANTS</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">F. K. A COMPANY LIMITED AND MARY ADUFAH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span class="NoSpacingChar"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">(</span></i></b></span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">PLAINTIFFS<span class="NoSpacingChar"><b>)</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">NII MOI ALIAS NII ADOTE OTINTO, NII AKOTE IV, BENJAMIN OGBARMEY AND JENNIFER MENSAH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">(</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">DEFENDANTS</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">[<span class="NoSpacingChar">HIGH COURT (LAND DIVISION 10)</span>, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm; mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">CONSOLIDATED SUITS (1) SUIT NO FAL/924/13(2) SUIT NO SOL/2/13</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> DATE: 16<sup>TH </sup>MAY, 2019<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">IRENE MARIA ALLOTEY-ANNAN FOR PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">F. K. YEBOAH FOR DEFENDANTS<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">CORAM:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span class="NoSpacingChar"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">HER LADYSHIP REBECCA SITTIE (MRS)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm; mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">JUDGMENT</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">(SUIT NO FAL/924/13)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The Plaintiff issued out a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim against one Kofi Siaw as 1<sup>st</sup> Defendant and Felices Garr as 2<sup>nd</sup> Defendant on 28<sup>th</sup> August 2013. Counsel for Defendants informed the Court on 14<sup>th</sup> June 2017 that 1<sup>st</sup> Defendant, Kofi Siaw had passed on and sought leave to have him substituted. After several months of stalling proceedings the Court granted Counsel for Plaintiff’s application and struck out 1<sup>st</sup> Defendant’s name on 27<sup>th</sup> October 2017. Felices Garr became the only Defendant in the case. Defendant later applied to be disjoined because he bought the land for his church whom he sought to be joined to the suit. The Court granted an order to join the Trustees for Christ Power Encounter International Ministries as 2<sup>nd</sup> Defendant. By the Amended Writ of Summons filed on 18<sup>th</sup> May 2018, Plaintiff prayed the Court for the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">a.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Declaration that the activities of the Defendants on land in dispute amounts to trespass.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">b.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Damages for trespass.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">c.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Order for recovery of possession and further order that any offending structure placed on the said land be removed at cost to the Defendants.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">d.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Perpetual injunction restraining the Defendants, their agents, assigns, and workmen from ever dealing with the land