MAAME ABENA TAKYIWAA vs. EMMANUEL ZOROKONG [2020]DLCA9903

Date	2020-11-20
Suit No.
Citation No.	[2020]DLCA9903

OFOE J.A

BARTELS-KODWO J.A

BERNASKO J.A

[2020]DLCA9903
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="_Hlk35510717">MAAME ABENA TAKYIWAA</a> <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/ APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>EMMANUEL ZOROKONG<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(DEFENDANT/ RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">

SUIT NO. HI/45/201&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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: 20TH NOVEMBER, 2020<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>OFOE, J.A, BARTELS-KODWO, J.A,
BERNASKO, J.A<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0in;">

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</div>OFOE,
J.A:<o:p></o:p>This
is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court delivered on the 14th
July, 2017 in which the trial judge dismissed the case of the plaintiff seeking
per its reliefs endorsed on the writ the following<o:p></o:p>“a. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A
declaration of title to the property known as PLOT 72 BLK ‘A’ ODENEFO KWADASO,
KUMASI which the plaintiff acquired by reason of a gift purchased for her by
her great-grandmother Akua Serwaa.<o:p></o:p>b. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A
declaration that the purported possession of the property as well as any works
there at by the defendant having been done without the knowledge consent and
authority of the plaintiff is trespassory unlawful and an infraction of the
plaintiff’s proprietary rights.<o:p></o:p>c. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Recovery
of possession from and ejectment of the defendant by the plaintiff from the
said premises known as H/NO. PLOT 72 BLK. ‘A’ ODENEHO KWADASO, KUMASI.<o:p></o:p>d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; General,
special and punitive damages in favour of the plaintiff for the defendant’s
trespass and attempts at changing the nature and character as well as intrinsic
quality of the said property. <o:p></o:p>e. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Perpetual
injunction restraining the defendant, his agents assigns privies workmen
representatives and those acting at his direction or behest from in any manner
interfering with the right, title, interest and possession of the plaintiff s
the owner of the said property.<o:p></o:p>f.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SUCH
FURTHER ODER(S) AS THE Honourable Court may deem fit”.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>Tersely
put the case of the plaintiff in support of these claims are that the property
the defendant is in occupation of, property numbered H/No 72 Bloock A Odeneho
Kwadaso, Kumasi, was acquired through a gift by her maternal grandmother Akua
Serwaa. As evidence of purchase of this property for her the grandmother got
the allocation paper in plaintiff’s name. This allocation paper was tendered in
evidence as exhibit B. Recently it came to her notice that the defendant had
entered the property and was renovating same on the bases of an agreement he
alleged he had entered with the plaintiff’s mother leasing the property to him.
All attempts at getting the defendant to vacate the property has been resisted
by the defendant. It is the case of the plaintiff that the defendant has
effected some unwanted structural changes to the original property the
defendant will have to be mulcted in damages as follows:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>“11.
…………….<o:p></o:p>a.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Breaking of the compound of
the premises&nbsp; - GH¢2,000,000.00<o:p></o:p>b.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Digging of a foundation on a
vacant portion - GH¢2,000,000.00&nbsp; of the
property<o:p></o:p>c.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;