BENJAMIN DANQUAH vs. AGNES AHADZI AND PIONEER MALLS LTD [2021]DLCA10833

Date	2021-05-20
Suit No.	SUIT NO H1/168/2016
Citation No.	[2021]DLCA10833

H. KWOFIE JA (PRESIDING)

B. MENSAH JA

ARYENE JA

JOHN AIDOO FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT

S. K. AMOAH FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

[2021]DLCA10833
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >BENJAMIN DANQUAH<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>AGNES AHADZI &nbsp; AND PIONEER
MALLS LTD<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
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SUIT NO H1/168/2016&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;DATE: 20TH MAY, 2021<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>JOHN AIDOO FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT<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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PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM: <o:p></o:p>H.
KWOFIE JA (PRESIDING), B. MENSAH JA, ARYENE JA<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;ARYENE JA<o:p></o:p>This
is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Accra delivered on 3rd
February 2011. In this judgment, we shall refer to plaintiff /Respondent as
plaintiff and Defendants/Appellants as Defendants. <o:p></o:p>Plaintiff
obtained judgment against the Defendants for reliefs endorsed on its amended
writ of summons. 2nd Defendant’s counterclaim, was dismissed as
unproven. <o:p></o:p>Aggrieved
by the decision of the trial court, Defendants are in this court, praying for an
order to reverse the judgment and for judgment to be entered on their counterclaim.
Their prayer is brought under the following grounds of appeal:<o:p></o:p><a name="_Hlk58871978">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
That the judgment is against the weight of
evidence.<o:p></o:p></a>&nbsp;<a name="_Hlk59003521">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That
the learned judge erred in law when he failed to advert his mind to or address
the issue of illegality of the land Title Registry cancelling land certificate
no GA 9043 without a proper court order or due process under the Land Title
Registration Law, 1986, (PNDCL 152).<o:p></o:p></a>&nbsp;3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The trial judge erred when he failed to
advert his mind to or address the issue of the acquittal and discharge of Defendant’s
grantors for forgery of signature on their indenture upon which the said land
certificate No GA 9043 was purportedly cancelled. 
 
<o:p></o:p>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The judge erred when he misdirected himself
by asserting that the Defendants’ grantors’ purported cancelled title deed was
completely annulled without making a finding of fact on same.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The judge erred in ordering the cancellation
of 2nd Defendant’s land certificate no GA 13523 when no claim or
request had been made before the trial court by the endorsement on the writ or
by counterclaim. <o:p></o:p>