FLORENCE YEMO vs. VINCENT KOTEY [2021]DLHC10555

Date	2021-02-11
Suit No.	SUIT NO: BMISC/835/2013
Citation No.	[2021]DLHC10555

KWEKU T. ACKAAH-BOAFO J

MS. PHILIPPA DENNIS FOR THE PLAINTIFF - PRESENT

MR. SAM WOOD FOR THE DEFENDANT – PRESENT

[2021]DLHC10555
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >FLORENCE YEMO<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>VINCENT KOTEY<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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padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">SUIT NO: BMISC/835/2013 &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:
11TH FEBRUARY, 2021<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<o:p></o:p>MS. PHILIPPA DENNIS FOR THE PLAINTIFF - PRESENT<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;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>KWEKU T. ACKAAH-BOAFO, J<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;<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">i.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Introduction<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">:<o:p></o:p>[1]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Defendant, Vincent Kotey is a man who believes in
polygamous relationships and as such he has had at least three marriages including
his marriage to the Plaintiff herein, Florence Yemo. The parties married under
Ga customary law and their relationship from the evidence was blessed with
children who are all adults now. Before the end of their relationship Mr. Kotey
contracted another marriage by custom to one Rosemary Arthiabah, a witness the
Plaintiff subpoenaed to testify in support of her case. The case of the
Plaintiff is that in the course of the marriage, the Defendant was offered a
plot of land by his family and she gave him money to pay for the land. Having
acquired the land it is the further case of the Plaintiff that the Defendant
proposed to her and the said Rosemary Arthiabah to construct two semi-detached
houses on the land with each acquiring one for herself and their respective
children. According to the Plaintiff, she obtained loans from the bank for the
construction of her part of the house but the Defendant now says the house is
his personal property. She is therefore, by this action seeking a declaration
of title to the said house as her property.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[2]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Defendant denies the contention of the Plaintiff and
contends that the said property is his personal property and the Plaintiff has
no basis to allocate to herself any part of the property for herself and her two
children. His case is that he worked assiduously and earned money to build the
said house and never received money while building the house from anybody. He
therefore prayed the Court to dismiss the Plaintiff’s case.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;ii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Action:<o:p></o:p>[3]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Plaintiff’s claim filed at the registry of this
Court on June 27, 2013 is for the following judicial reliefs:<o:p></o:p>i.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Declaration
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