[2023]DLHC16792 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; color:#00B0F0">PHILIP KWAKU ABABIO<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%;tab-stops:center 243.0pt left 313.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; color:#00B0F0">NANA KWESI OMANKOMANTEY II<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-2.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, HOHOE]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%;tab-stops:168.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <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: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO E1/34/2021 DATE: 30<sup>TH</sup> JULY 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%;tab-stops:96.25pt 118.5pt 213.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">COUNSEL <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">MR GODWIN KPORBLE FOR PLAINTIFF <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">MR. ERNEST DELA AKATEY FOR DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%;tab-stops:center 243.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">CORAM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE AYITEY ARMAH-TETTEH <o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">By<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>writ<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>summons<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>dated<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>24<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>May<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt"> </span>2021,<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>Plaintiff<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>clan<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>head<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>Yafoaes<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>Banda claims against the defendant as Chief of Banda as follows: -<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" align="left" style="margin: 0cm 5.75pt 0.0001pt 35.15pt; line-height: 115%;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: 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:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">A<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>declaration<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>Banda<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>lands<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>owned<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>Plaintiff’s<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt"> </span>family,<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>which is bounded as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:220.65pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:35.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">On one side by the property of Chokes On another side by property of Wiae On<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>another<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>side<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>property<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Nawure<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:35.15pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">On<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>last<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>side<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>properties<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Chonkes<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Nawure</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.75pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:35.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo7; tab-stops:47.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-f