KWADWO FOSU (PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT) vs. NANA OSEI AKOTO VI [2023]DLSC16138

Date	2023-02-01
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/26/2020
Citation No.	[2023]DLSC16138

YEBOAH CJ (PRESIDING)

PROF. KOTEY JSC

AMADU JSC

PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC

KULENDI JSC

KWASI ADU MANTE ESQ. FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT.

W. K. A. SMITH ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANT/RESPONDENTAPPELLANT.

[2023]DLSC16138
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KWADWO
FOSU<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>NANA OSEI
AKOTO VI&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>[SUPREME 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;">

CIVIL APPEAL NO.
J4/26/2020&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:
1ST FEBRUARY 2023&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL <o:p></o:p>KWASI ADU MANTE ESQ. FOR
PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT/RESPONDENT.<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;">

W. K. A. SMITH ESQ. FOR THE
DEFENDANT/RESPONDENTAPPELLANT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>YEBOAH
CJ (PRESIDING), PROF. KOTEY JSC, AMADU JSC, PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC,
KULENDI JSC&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <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;">

JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;KULENDI JSC:-<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;INTRODUCTION:<o:p></o:p>This
is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Kumasi dated 29th
October, 2019. By the said judgment, the Court of Appeal set aside the High
Court judgment of 18th April, 2018 which dismissed
Plaintiff/Appellant/Respondent’s (hereinafter called the “the Respondent”)
action on the ground that the course of action constituted a cause or matter
affecting chieftaincy and entered judgment for the Respondent in respect of the
reliefs endorsed on his writ of summons.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;BACKGROUND:<o:p></o:p>The
Respondent issued a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim against the
Defendant/Respondent/Appellant (hereinafter called “the Appellant”) on 15th
October, 2014 for the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p><ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="1" type="a">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; border: none;">Declaration of title to Plot No. 1 which is situate on the Bomso
 stool land and bordering on the Akosua Nsowaa Avenue and Plots No. 2 and 3
 which are also situate on the Bomso Stool land and bordering on Adwoa Maanu
 Avenue all in the Afigya Kwabre District in the Ashanti Region.<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; border: none;">Recovery of possession<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; border: none;">Perpetual injunction.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol>&nbsp;In
his thirteen (13) paragraph Statement of Claim, the Respondent contended that
sometime in 2001, he acquired plots numbered 1, 2 and 3 forming part of Bomso
Stool land from Nana Kofi Krah, the then Odikro of Bomso. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
Respondent averred further that at the time of acquiring the land, the
Appellant had not been enstooled as chief of Bomso. In proof of these
foundational assertions the Respondent adduced evidence proving that all
necessary and relevant title documents of the land had been duly executed by
the said Nana Kofi Krah and Obaapanin Yaa Achiaa in his favour. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
Respondent stated that even though he acquired the plots in 2001, he only
managed to procure the title documents in 2012 because the title documents were
not ready in 2001. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Subsequent
to obtaining the relevant title documents, the Respondent registered the land
and obtained the necessary permit to develop the land. The Respondent contended
that notwithstanding the grant of the permits, the Appellant, the current chief
of Bomso, had made it almost impossible for him to develop the land by
procuring the services of thugs to harass the Respondent. It is against this
background that the Respondent resorted to the High Court seeking the reliefs
above against the Appellant.<o:p></o:p>