MARY MARINA AGYEPONG vs. EDDY AMOAH [2021]DLHC11352

Date	2021-01-13
Suit No.	SUIT NO. LD/0855/2019
Citation No.	[2021]DLHC11352

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE SOLOMON OPPONG-TWUMASI (MR.)

VINCENT GARR FOR THE PLAINTIFF

[2021]DLHC11352
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MARY MARINA
AGYEPONG<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>EDDY AMOAH<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/0855/2019&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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:
13TH JANUARY, 2021<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <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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FOR THE PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE SOLOMON OPPONG-TWUMASI (MR.)<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;1.0.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
BRIEF FACTS:<o:p></o:p>On the 11th day of June 2019, the Plaintiff
caused to issue from the Registry of this Court a writ of summons seeking the
reliefs indorsed on same. The writ was accompanied by a statement of claim made
up of 15 paragraphs. The plaintiff describes herself per paragraph 1 of her
statement of claim, as a Ghanaian who is ordinarily resident in Ghana,
travelled to London but has now returned to Ghana. <o:p></o:p>1.1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
BRIEF FACTS: <o:p></o:p>The Plaintiff states that she purchased a parcel
of land from one Madam Gloria Adjei in 2005.&nbsp;
The land the Plaintiff so acquired is situate at Okpoi Gonno in Accra.<o:p></o:p>The land in dispute is a small part of a larger
land which is a subject-matter of a Statutory Declaration made by Stephen Otu
Okle of Nungua which vested the larger land, the subject-matter of the
Statutory Declaration, in the said Stephen Otu Okle.&nbsp; &nbsp;<o:p></o:p>The large tract of land, the subject-matter of the
Statutory Declaration as aforementioned, which was/is perpetually and free from
all in cumbrances was vested in Otu Okle.<o:p></o:p>1.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
By a Deed of
Conveyance dated the 9th day of April, 1994, Otu Okle aforementioned
transferred the disputed land to one Gloria Adjei, the Plaintiff’s grantor, who
also subsequently on the 26th day of May, 2005, by a purchase
agreement, sold the disputed land to the Plaintiff for valuable consideration.<o:p></o:p>After the purchase of the land from Gloria Adjei,
the Plaintiff went into effective possession and erected corner pillars on same
and deposited building materials on it with the intention of commencing a
building project on the land in dispute.<o:p></o:p>1.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Plaintiff who was travelling to London,
appointed a caretaker to take care of the land.&nbsp;
The said caretaker was planting food crops and raring animals on the
land but as a result of ill-health the caretaker had to leave the land whilst
the Plaintiff was still out of the jurisdiction.<o:p></o:p>Sometime ago, upon a visit by the Plaintiff to the
land, she noticed that someone had trespassed onto the land in dispute and had
already started building on it. With the help of the caretaker, the plaintiff
later came to know that it was the defendant who had trespassed onto the land.
In spite of efforts made by the Plaintiff to let the Defendant stop his
trespassory conduct, the Defendant would not budge.&nbsp; The Plaintiff therefore had no other option
than to commence the present action against the Defendant.<o:p></o:p>1.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs</main>