[2021]DLHC11362 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;color:#00B0F0">SETH WELBECK<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:#00B0F0">MADAM ERNESTINA AGYAPOMAA & OTHERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></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" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">SUIT NO. LD/0185/2017 DATE: 30<sup>TH</sup> NOVEMBER, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">CONSTANCE QUIST HOLDING BRIEF FOR KWASI ADJENIM-BOATENG FOR THE PLAINTIFF <o:p></o:p></span></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: justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm; mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">TAWIAH YOYOWA FOR THE DEFENDANTS - ABSENT <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">CORAM:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE SOLOMON OPPONG-TWUMASI (MR.)<o:p></o:p></span></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:200%;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:200%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -36.0pt;line-height:200%;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">1.0<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">INTRODUCTION:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">On 20<sup>th</sup> February, 2017, the Plaintiff caused a writ to be issued for him and against the Defendants seeking the reliefs indorsed on his said writ of summons. On 2<sup>nd</sup> of March, 2017, the Plaintiff amended his said writ and virtually repeated the same reliefs he sought against the Defendants in the amended writ as those he had sought in the original writ.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -36.0pt;line-height:200%;mso-list:l6 level2 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">1.1<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">The writ was accompanied by a 16-paragraph statement of claim setting out in detail the basis for the Plaintiff’s claim. The Plaintiff in his amended writ of summons seeks the following reliefs from this Court;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -36.0pt;line-height:200%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(a)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">An order for declaration of title (sic) to ALL that piece or parcel of land situate lying and being at Bubuashie, Accra and described in Land Certificate NO. GA49615 Vol.31 with Folio No. 506 in favour of the Plaintiff.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -36.0pt;line-height:200%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(b)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">An order for declaration (sic) that the activities of the Defendants amount to trespass on the Plaintiff’s property.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -36.0pt;line-height:200%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(c)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">An order for recovery of possession of the property on which the trespass was committed from the Defendants.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -36.0pt;line-height:200%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(d)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">An order of the Honourable Court for Defendants to pull down any offending structure(s) created on the property and also to carry away from the property debris from the offending structure(s).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -36.0pt;line-height:200%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(e)<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt