YAW OWUSU vs. ERNESTINA NYARKO ONOMAH & ORS [2019]DLHC9160

Date	2019-01-29
Suit No.	SUIT NO. LD/1266/17
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC9160

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (MRS)

NANA TSETSE DARKO FOR A. A. SOMUAH ASAMOAH FOR 1ST OT 12TH DEFENDANTS

JOYCE ATTA GYAMFI FOR 14TH DEFENDANT

OLIVER ATSU ABADA FPR FOR PLAINTIFF

[2019]DLHC9160
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >YAW OWUSU<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>ERNESTINA NYARKO ONOMAH
&amp; ORS<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/APPLICANTS)<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/1266/17&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 29TH JANUARY,
2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>NANA TSETSE DARKO FOR A. A.
SOMUAH ASAMOAH FOR 1ST OT 12TH DEFENDANTS&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>JOYCE ATTA GYAMFI FOR 14TH
DEFENDANT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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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OLIVER
ATSU ABADA FPR FOR PLAINTIFF <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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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>&nbsp;[1] Before me is a motion on notice filed by
the 1st to 12th Defendants pursuant to Order 11 Rule 18
of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, C.I 47 and the inherent jurisdiction
of this Court to dismiss the Plaintiff’s suit on the grounds that the Plaintiff/Respondent
has no interest whatsoever in the parcels of land the subject matter of Suit No.
LD/0698/2016, hence his claim thereto has been made in utmost bad faith and is
frivolous and vexatious.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[2] In
the affidavit in support of the said application, the 1st to 12th
Defendants Applicants averred, among others, that the Plaintiff Respondent was
a grantee of the 13th Defendant against whom they had obtained
judgment in Suit No. LD/0698/2016 as evidenced by Exhibit ‘ENO1’. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[3]
They further claimed that prior to obtaining the said judgment, the 13th
Defendant had caused their properties to be demolished on the basis that the
land they were developing was affected by a Supreme Court Judgment entitled
Adjetey Agbosu &amp;5 others vs Ebenezer Nikoi Kotey &amp; 3 Others that
decreed title in the land in dispute in his family.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[4]
According to the 1st to 12th Defendants Applicants,
acting upon this representation, they paid various sums of money to the 13th
Defendant with the aim of regularizing their acquisition of their parcels of
land yet the 13th Defendant caused subsequently their properties to
be demolished. Eventually, they engaged a surveyor to prepare a composite plan
and the result revealed that the land in dispute was not affected by the
judgment based upon which the 13th Defendant had caused the
demolition of their properties.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[5] Based
upon this revelation, the 1st to 12th Defendants caused
their lawyer to issue a writ against the 13th Defendant in Suit No.
LD/0698/2016 in which they claimed, among others, declaration of title to their
respective parcels of land, declaration that their parcels of land do not form
part of and fall outside the land the subject of the judgment in Suit No. L/2970/93
intituled Adjetey Agbosu &amp; 5 ors v Ebenezer Nikoi Kotey &amp; 2ors, a
declaration that the demolition of parts of their properties on their
respective parcels of land at the instance of the Defendant was unlawful,
perpetual injuncti</main>