JOSEPH EVANS-LUTTERODT vs. KWESI DARKWAH & 3 ORS. [2020]DLHC10427

Date	2020-02-26
Suit No.	SUIT NO.: LD/1026/2018
Citation No.	[2020]DLHC10427

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE ELLEN VIVIAN AMOAH

PRINCE FREDERICK NII-ASHIE NEEQUAYE WITH JAY JOSIAH FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPLICANT – PRESENT

[2020]DLHC10427
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >JOSEPH EVANS-LUTTERODT<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>KWESI DARKWAH &amp; 3 ORS.<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<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: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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NO.: LD/1026/2018&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 26 TH FEBRUARY, 2020<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>PRINCE FREDERICK NII-ASHIE NEEQUAYE WITH JAY
JOSIAH FOR THE <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: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE ELLEN VIVIAN AMOAH<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 0cm;">

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</div>&nbsp;The
Plaintiff is a businessman and lives in Accra. The 1st Defendant is
an alleged claimant of the Plaintiff land and lives in Accra. The 2nd
Defendant is an Osofo and lives in Accra. The 3rd Defendant is a
fisherman and lives at Teshie in Accra. The 4th Defendant is a Civil
Servant and a Colonel working with the National Security of Ghana and has his
office at the Blue Gate at Osu in Accra.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The Plaintiff is the owner of all that piece
or parcel of land situate lying and being at Teshie in the LEKMA Area of the
Greater Accra Region of the Republic of Ghana and bounded on the NORTH WEST by
lessors land measuring there 83.0 feet more or less on the NORTHEAST by
lessor’s land measuring there 90.5 feet more or less, on the SOUTH EAST by a
proposed Road measuring there 80.1 feet more or less and on the SOUTH WEST by
lessor’s land measuring there 74.7 feet more or less and containing an
approximate area of 0.15 Acres or 0.06 Hectare more or less.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
Plaintiff became owner of the land under and by virtue of a lease expressed to
be made on 13th August 2014 between Nii Ashikwei Kwaobotwe II
Dzasetse and Head of Lenshie family of Teshie Accra of the one part and Joseph
Evans-Lutteredt of the other part and the Plaintiff had the document stamped at
the Land valuation Board with No. LVDGAST20329218B. Furthermore the Plaintiff
states that he was given a receipt to cover the purchase.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
Plaintiff case is&nbsp; that the Lenshie
family of Teshie sold the land in dispute to him and he&nbsp; took occupation and deposited sand and stones
on the land and erected a foundation structure on the land with a dwarf wall
thereon and further exercised all overt acts of ownership including engaging a
caretaker to take care of the land.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
Plaintiff states that without his leave and licence, the 3rd
Defendant trespassed unto the land and attacked the workers of the Plaintiff
and the Plaintiff reported the matter to the Central Police station.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Plaintiff
states that at the central police station the 3rd Defendant informed
the police CID same that he has no document on the land and that he had earlier
on sold the land to the 2nd Defendant, which the 2nd
Defendant admitted at the police station.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
Plaintiff states that the 3rd Defendant and 2nd Defendant
pleaded with the Plaintiff and the CID to have the case resolved at home.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
Plaintiff states that the 3rd Defendant informed the Plaintiff that
he knows the land belongs to the Teshie Lenshie family but was gifted to them
and he has no document on the land and that it was the 2nd Defendant
who gave money for the erection of the wall and that the Osofo has not been to
the land for a long time and therefore the Plaintiff should give him some money
to take the land.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
Plaintiff states that he reported the conduct of the 3rd Defendant
to the Head and elders of the Lenshie family of Teshie Accra who told the 3rd
Defendant that they as the fathers could not sit down for the 3rd
Defendant to collect money from the Plaintiff and therefore the Plaintiff
should pay whatever the 3rd Defendant had demanded to them and they
would in turn give a portion to the 3rd Defendant and subsequently
the Plaintiff paid money to the head and elders of the Lenshie family and
further paid some money to the 3rd Defendant to reimburse him for
the dwarf wall and the land.<o:p></o:p>