[2022]DLCA15153 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center;line-height:115%;tab-stops:125.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#00B0F0">SSGT RTD JACK NII DARKU DODOO</span></b><b><span lang="en-DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#00B0F0;mso-ansi-language:#2000"> AND </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#00B0F0">W.O.1 CHARLES NII AMOO DODOO</span></b><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#00B0F0"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><i><span lang="en-DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:#2000">(</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS</span></i><i><span lang="en-DE" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:#2000">)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#00B0F0">vs</span></b><b><span lang="en-DE" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:#00B0F0;mso-ansi-language:#2000">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#00B0F0">FUSEINI IBRAHIM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><i><span lang="en-DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:#2000">(</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT</span></i><i><span lang="en-DE" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:#2000">)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">[COURT OF APPEAL, 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: 0in 0in 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" align="center" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right: 0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.0in;line-height:115%;tab-stops:125.25pt; border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in; mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">CIVIL APPEAL NO H1/67/2022 </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#2000"> </span><span lang="en-DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language:#2000"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">DATE: 7<sup>TH </sup>JULY, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:200%"><b><span lang="en-DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:#2000">COUNSEL</span></b><b><span lang="en-DE" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:#2000"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Michael Akanbek for Plaintiff/Respondent</span><span lang="en-DE" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:#2000"><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: 0in 0in 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:150%;tab-stops:center 3.25in;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Stanley Boye-Quaye for Defendants/Appellants<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:130%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:130%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">CORAM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:130%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:130%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">SUURBAAREH J. A (PRESIDING)</span><span lang="en-DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 130%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#2000">, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 130%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">M. WOOD (MRS), J.A, J. BARTELS-KODWO (MRS) J.A<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 0in;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0in 1.0pt 0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="en-DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:#2000"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">MERLEY WOOD JA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">This is an Interlocutory appeal from the ruling of the High Court, Land Division, Accra dated 12<sup>th</sup> May 2021. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The facts leading to this interlocutory appeal are that the Plaintiff/Respondent took out a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim against the Defendants for the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">“(i) A Declaration that the Plaintiff is the bona fide owner of all that piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being at Pokuase-Accra and containing an approximate area of 0.263 Acre or (0.106 Ha) more or less and bounded on the North-West by proposed road measuring 051.7 & 040.3’ feet more or less on the North-East by proposed road measuring 110.9 feet more or less on the South-East by the Lessor’s land measuring 103.9’ feet more or less on the South-West by the Lessor’s land measuring 128.7 feet more or less.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">(ii) Recovery of Possession of the piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being at Pokuase-Accra and containing an approximate area of 0.263’ Acre or (0.106Ha) more or less and bounded on the North-West by proposed road measuring 0.51.7 & 040.3’ feet more or less on the North-East by proposed road measuring 110.9 feet more or less on the South-East by the Lessor’s land measuring 103.9’ feet more or less on the South-West by the Lessor’s land measuring 1287.7 feet more or less.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" styl