ADWOA BOKOR NSAWAM vs. MADAM AGBO ODDOYE SUBSTITUTED BY PHILLIP ODOI, NSAWAM [2021]DLSC11144

Date	2021-12-08
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/38/2021
Citation No.	[2021]DLSC11144

YEBOAH CJ (PRESIDING)

PWAMANG JSC

AMEGATCHER JSC

TORKORNOO (MRS.) JSC

KULENDI JSC

GABRIEL ODAME ADUFUL FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT.

FRANK G. DONKOR FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT.

[2021]DLSC11144
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ADWOA BOKOR<o:p></o:p>NSAWAM<o:p></o:p>[PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT]<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MADAM AGBO ODDOYE<o:p></o:p>SUBSTITUTED BY PHILLIP ODOI, NSAWAM<o:p></o:p>[DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT]<o:p></o:p>[SUPREME 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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mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/38/2021 &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:
8TH DECEMBER 2021<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>GABRIEL ODAME ADUFUL FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT.<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">FRANK G. DONKOR FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<o:p></o:p>YEBOAH CJ (PRESIDING),
PWAMANG JSC, AMEGATCHER JSC, TORKORNOO (MRS.) JSC, KULENDI JSC <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;TORKORNOO JSC:-<o:p></o:p>The plaintiff in this suit is Adwoa Bokor. She
lost the suit in the high court, became the appellant in the court of appeal,
won the appeal, and is the Respondent in this court. For ease of reference, she
will be referred to as Plaintiff hereafter. The defendant Madam Agbo Oddoye,
won the dispute in the high court, became respondent to the appeal in the court
of appeal, lost it in the court of appeal, and is the Appellant before this
court. She will be referred to as Defendant hereafter. <o:p></o:p>THE
CASE OF THE PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p>According to the case made out in her Amended
Statement of Claim and Reply, Plaintiff claimed to be the owner of 28.76 acres
of land more particularly described in the indorsement of her writ of summons
as:<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;‘situate and being at a place commonly called
Duayeden-Ahodwo near Nsawam and bounded on one side by the Ahohonomfra stream
and measuring on that side a distance of a total distance of 1180 feet more or
less on one side by Nsawam-Aburi main motor road and measuring on that side a
distance of 1100 feet more or less on one side by Ahodwo family measuring on
that side a distance of 850 feet more or less and on the other side by Ghana
Medium Security Prisons measuring on that side a distance of 1160 feet more or
less. <o:p></o:p>Plaintiff’s case was that this land had originally
been acquired as part of a larger tract
of land by her ancestor called Opayin Duayeden who was married to her
maternal grandmother Akua Asi Botwe. Duayeden gifted part of this larger tract
of land to his wife Akua Asi Botwe and her children and they provided customary
drink or aseda in the form of one live sheep, one bottle schnapps and £5,
through her brother Opayin Mensah Krokrokwa in or about 1915. Maame Akua Asi
Botwe immediately went into possession with her children with Duayeden. <o:p></o:p>Plaintiff sets out how the defendant got access to
the land in issue and states that the children of Akua Asi Botwe brought one
Ataa Nii to farm on the land as a tenant farmer. He came with his wife and son
known as Oddoye. The defendant is the wife of this son Oddoye.<o:p></o:p>According to the case of the Plaintiff, at some
point in time, the Government acquired portion of the land to build the Nsawam
security prisons and compensation to the children of Asi Botwe through one
Martin Owusu Afram, a member of her family since at the time of the
acquisition, none of the children of Asi Botwe were around.<o:p></o:p>Plaintiff’s case went on further to aver after the
death of most of the children of Asi Botwe and in the lifetime of the last
surviving son called Opayin Kwaku Amoafo, he registered his interest in the
land through a Statutory Declaration dated 4th March 1985 and
numbered 948/1985. Thereafter, he gifted the land in dispute to her in 1987.
She provided one live sheep and one schnapps as customary Aseda for the land
gifted to her. The document prepared as evidence of the transaction was
registered at the Deeds Registry as No EA3991 in 2007.<o:p></o:p>Plaintiff </main>