[2021]DLSC11152 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:#00B0F0">MRS THERESA BOAKYE AND FRANK ASIEDU BOAKYE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:#00B0F0">SUING PER THEIR LAWFUL ATTORNEY NAPOLEON TWUM BARIMAH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:#00B0F0">(AS LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ESTATE OF KINGSLEY KWADWO BOAKYE)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">(DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS/ APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span style="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="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:#00B0F0">OPANIN KWAME ASIEDU<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">[SUPREME 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="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height: 150%;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: 150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/22/2021 DATE: 15<sup>TH</sup> DECEMBER, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">COUNSEL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">K. AMOAKO ADJEI ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> </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="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-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">CHARLES TETTEY FOR THE DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS/RESPONDENTS.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">CORAM: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">DOTSE (PRESIDING), PWAMANG JSC, TORKORNOO (MRS.) JSC, AMADU JSC, KULENDI JSC <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="text-align:center;line-height:150%; 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-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">TORKORNOO (MRS.) JSC:-<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Background facts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">The plaintiff/appellant/respondent is the brother of one Kingsley Kwadwo Boakye (deceased). The defendants/respondents/appellants are the widow and son of Kingsley Kwadwo Boakye (hereinafter referred to as Kingsley Boakye). The plaintiff sued in his capacity as brother and customary successor of Kingsley Boakye. The subject matter of the dispute is six plots of land situated in Abenase near Oda, with a house thereon numbered house No. J2, Abenase. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">The parties are agreed regarding the location of the land, and the fact that the house in issue was built by Kingsley Boakye from resources that none of his mother's children contributed to. Beyond that, they disagree on who acquired the land on which the house is built, and the nature of Kingsley Boakye's interest in the house after he built it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">According to the Plaintiff/Respondent</span></b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> (hereinafter referred to as Plaintiff), the land was allocated to his mother Maame Yaa Anyanyan of Abenase (also known and referred to in this judgment as MaameKyerewaa) by the Abenase Town Development Committee (hereafter referred to as the TDC), in 1979, and that she made it clear at the time of obtaining the land that she wanted six plots of land because she had twelve children. Plaintiff states in his statement of claim that the <i>'said land remained the property of MaameKyerewaa to the notice of all</i>', and at the time that Kingsley Boakye <i>'decided to construct a family house on the land in the lifetime of Maame Kyerewaa, <b>he knew that it was land for his mother</b></i>'. (emphasis mine)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> It is also the position of Plaintiff in paragraph 15 of his statement of claim that Kingsley Boakyeopenly stated that he was <i>'building the house for his mother</i>' and consequently named the building Kyerewaa Villa. Following these positions, Plaintiff urged thateven though Kingsley Boakyebuilt the house in dispute, he had only a life interest in the building, and it was family property. He claimed for: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">1.<span style="font-style: normal; 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></i><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">A declaration that House No. J2 popularly called Kyerewaa Villa, Abenase near Oda is the property of the family of Maame Yaa Kyerewaa alias Maame Yaa Anyanyan (deceased)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">2.<span style="font-style: normal; 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></i><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Damages for trespass<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">3.<span style="font-style: normal; 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></i><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Perpetual injunction to restrain the defendants, their agents, representatives and all privies from laying claim to the said house<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",seri