RAINBOW PREMIER HOMES REAL ESTATES LIMITED vs. CHARLES OPOKU-DARKO & 3 ORS [2022]DLHC16380

Date	2022-03-17
Suit No.	SUIT NO. FAL/360/2012
Citation No.	[2022]DLHC16380

HIS LORDSHIP K. A. GYIMAH

RAPHAEL ALIJINA WITH BRIGHT KWAKYE FOR PLAINTIFF.

NO LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR 1ST AND 4TH DEFENDANTS.

PROSPER NYAHE WITH PORTIA AHIAWORDOR AND OBED WORDU FOR 2ND AND 3RD DEFENDANTS

[2022]DLHC16380
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >RAINBOW PREMIER HOMES REAL
ESTATES LIMITED <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>CHARLES OPOKU-DARKO &amp; 3 ORS<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<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;">

SUIT NO. FAL/360/2012&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:
17TH&nbsp;MARCH &nbsp;2022<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>RAPHAEL
ALIJINA WITH BRIGHT KWAKYE FOR PLAINTIFF.<o:p></o:p>NO
LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR 1ST AND 4TH DEFENDANTS.<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;">

</div>CORAM<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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JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>Plaintiff’s Case<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;By an amended writ of summons issued on 5th
February 2020, the Plaintiff claimed the following reliefs against the
Defendants:<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="1" type="i">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
 150%;mso-list:l20 level1 lfo19;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
 none">A declaration of title to all that
 piece and parcel of land situate, lying and being at Otele, in the Greater
 Accra Region which said property is described in the schedule hereunder.
 &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
 150%;mso-list:l20 level1 lfo19;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
 none">An order of perpetual injunction
 to restrain the Defendants, their agents, assigns workmen or otherwise
 howsoever described from interfering with the Plaintiff’s interest in the
 said land.<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
 150%;mso-list:l20 level1 lfo19;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
 none">An order directed at the
 Defendants to close the storm drainage gutter constructed onto the
 Plaintiff’s land.<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:
 150%;mso-list:l20 level1 lfo19;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
 none">Cost, including solicitor’s fees
 and other incidentals<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol>&nbsp;The land was described in the schedule as “all that piece or parcel of land situate,
lying and being at Otele marked 199 and 199A and bounded on the North-West by
proposed road measuring 144.19 feet more or less, on the North-East by lessor’s
land measuring 416.39 feet more or less, on the South-East by lessor’s land
measuring 224.42 feet more or less, on the South-West by lessor’s land
measuring 550.77 feet more or less and containing an approximate area of 1.883
acre or 0.762 hectare”.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The plaintiff describes itself as a limited liability
company that is engaged in real estate development. It is the plaintiff’s case
that it initially acquired the land in dispute from one Elizabeth Ohene by a
Deed of Assignment dated 26th&nbsp;May 2006 whereby she assigned her
interest in the land in dispute to the plaintiff. The plaintiff asserts that
prior to the acquisition of the said property, their grantor Elizabeth Ohene
gave them a copy of the lease that was issued in her favour by the 3rd
defendant dated 4th March 1999 which lease had been registered with
Registration No. AR195A/2006. The plaintiff further asserts that a search it
conducted at the Lands Commission confirmed Elizabeth Ohene’s lease from the 3rd
defendant and it al</main>