[2023]DLHC16853 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:9.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%;tab-stops:0cm"><a name="_Hlk152146143"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">BEATRICE KORKOR CODJOE AND<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:9.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%;tab-stops:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">MARTHA KWATIAH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:9.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%;tab-stops:0cm"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(PLAINTIFFS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:9.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%;tab-stops:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;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:9.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%;tab-stops:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">FRANCIS OSEI ADUTWUM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:9.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%;tab-stops:0cm"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;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:9.5pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%;tab-stops:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%;tab-stops:0cm 168.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua""> </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: 0cm; margin-right: 9.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:0cm; 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;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO.: FAL/766/2012 DATE: 2<sup>ND</sup> FEBRUARY, 2023<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%;tab-stops:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;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><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">C. A. CHAMBERS FOR THE PLAINTIFFS ABSENT<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="MsoNoSpacing" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">THERESA ABENA BOADU HOLDING BRIEF FOR A. G. BOADU FOR THE DEFENDANT PRESENT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%;tab-stops:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;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-right:9.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%;tab-stops:0cm right 479.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">HIS LORDSHIP ALEX OWUSU-OFORI (JA) </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;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></b></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: 0cm; margin-right: 9.5pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:0cm;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;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:9.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;line-height:115%; tab-stops:13.5pt 22.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">1.0.<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt"> </span>The Plaintiff herein caused a Writ of Summons to be issued at the Court’s Registry against the Defendant claiming for the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:9.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm; line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:13.5pt 22.5pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><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"; letter-spacing:-.1pt">(a)<span style="font-style: normal; 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></i><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">A declaration<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt"> </span>that the Plaintiffs are the beneficial owners of All that piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being at Apenkwa and bounded on the North/West by a proposed road measuring a distance of 80 feet more or less on the<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>South/East<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>proposed<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>road<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>measuring<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>distance<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>80<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>feet<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>more<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>less<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>on the North/East by the lessor’s property measuring a distance of 115 feet more or less on the South/West by the lessors property measuring a distance of 115 feetmore<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing:1.0pt"> </span>less<span style="letter-spacing: .9pt"> </span>containing<span style="letter-spacing:1.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>whole<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing:.9pt"> </span>area<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:1.0pt"> </span>0.20<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:.9pt"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing:1.05pt"> </span>acre<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:1.0pt"> </span>which<span style="letter-spacing:.9pt"> </span>land<span style="letter-spacing:1.05pt"> </span>is properly delineated on a site plan number 3959/1984;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.5pt;line-height:115%;tab-stops:13.5pt 22.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:9.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm; line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:13.5pt 22.5pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><i><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"; letter-spacing:-.1pt">(b)</span></i><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">An<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>order<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>recovery<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> possession<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.5pt;line-height:115%;tab-stops:13.5pt 22.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">