ABDULAI MOHAMMED vs. EMMANUEL TETTEH A.K.A. PAPA [2023]DLHC16941

Date	2023-05-02
Suit No.	SUIT NO. LD/0563/2022
Citation No.	[2023]DLHC16941

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE AMOS WUNTAH WUNI

THOMAS GBLORVU

SAMUELLA ASAREWAA KWARTENG

ABIGAIL DUFIE AGYEMANG

NANA KODWO ADENTWI

GEORGIETTE TORSHIE OBODAI

SYLVESTER NYAMEKYE

[2023]DLHC16941
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ABDULAI MOHAMMED<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>EMMANUEL TETTEH A.K.A. PAPA<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<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;">

</div>COUNSEL&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>THOMAS GBLORVU FOR PLAINTIFF/APPLICANT<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; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: 0cm;">

SAMUELLA ASAREWAA KWARTENG WITH ABIGAIL DUFIE
AGYEMANG, NANA KODWO ADENTWI AND GEORGIETTE TORSHIE OBODAI FOR SYLVESTER
NYAMEKYE FOR DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE AMOS
WUNTAH WUNI <o:p></o: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;">

RULING<o:p></o:p>

</div>This Ruling is in respect
of an application for interlocutory injunction filed on 18th August, 2022 by the
Plaintiff/Applicant (hereafter referred to as the “Applicant”). Counsel for the
Applicant moved the application in terms of the motion paper, the supporting
affidavit as well as a supplementary affidavit filed on 22nd September, 2022.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The Applicant contends
that he is the owner of the land in dispute described in paragraph 3A of his
affidavit in support. In proof of his contention, the Applicant attached a Deed
of Assignment (dated 8th November 2009 and
registered under the Land Registry Act, 1962 (Act 122) as Deed No. 581/2012) to his affidavit
in support (as Exhibit A).<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;It is the case of the
Applicant that while preparing to commence construction of a house on the land, he detected that someone
had encroached on the land. A Search conducted indicated that it was the
Defendant who had started construction of some structure on the land as
indicated in Exhibit D of the Applicant’s supplementary affidavit in support.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;It is the Applicant’s
prayer that the Court protects the status
quo by restraining the Defendant and all persons working
through him from dealing with the land until the final determination of the suit.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The Respondent filed an
affidavit in opposition on 6th September
2022, stating essentially in paragraphs 7 to 12 that, the Applicant is not