[7201]DLHC11957 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; color:#00B0F0">THE REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF ASSEMBLIES OF GOD CHURCH<i> </i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">(PLAINTIFF/JUDGMENT CREDITOR/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;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="text-align:center"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">HENRY NII ARYEE MENSAH <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; color:#00B0F0">ERNESTINA NAA AYELE MENSAH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(CLAIMANT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA (LAND DIVISION) ]<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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO. IPS/25/17 DATE: 16</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10px;">TH </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> JULY 2018<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:286.5pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; 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: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">JOSEPH KAPONDE FOR PLAINTIFF/JUDGMENT CREDITOR/RESPONDENT,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">K. AMOFA-AGYEMANG FOR CLAIMANT <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;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="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">REBECCA N. S. SITTIE (MRS)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm; margin-left: 5pt; margin-right: 5.8pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:1.05pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" 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="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:5.65pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">Plaintiff/Judgment<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Creditor<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>/Respondent<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>obtained<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>judgment<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Suit<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>No.<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>225/13 on<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>25<sup>th</sup><span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>November<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>2016<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>follows:<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>“<i>From<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>all<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>evidence<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>before<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>this<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>court<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>find and<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>hold<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>Plaintiff<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>has<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>proved<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>their<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>claim<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>balance<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>probabilities<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and I<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>therefore<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>enter<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>judgment<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>favour<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>Plaintiff<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>all<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>reliefs<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>endorsed<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>the Writ of Summons. I<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>make an order<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>for declaration of title to the land in dispute, plot<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>No<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>S7 measuring<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>0.14<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>acre situate<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>at Musuli<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>near<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>night<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Market<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>favour<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of Plaintiff. I grant an order of perpetual injunction restraining Defendant by himself, his agents, assigns, representatives, licencees or whosoever is on the land from interfering with Plaintiff’s land in whatsoever way howsoever described. <b>It is further ordered that Plaintiff/Judgment Creditor/Respondent recover the land in dispute from any persons however so described on the <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">land.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:5.65pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:5.6pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Plaintiff/Judgment Creditor/Respondent filed Entry of Judgment on 19<sup>th</sup> November 2016 and same was served on Defendant by substituted service on 20<sup>th</sup> January 2017. Plaintiff/Judgment Creditor/Respondent filed an <i>Ex-parte </i>Application<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>leave<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>issue<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Writ<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Possession<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>8<sup>th</sup><span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>February<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>2017<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>same was granted on 2<sup>nd</sup> March 2017. On the 14<sup>th</sup> April 2017 Ernestina Aryee filed a Notice of Claim, and Plaintiff/Judgment Creditor filed a<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Notice to Dispute Claim on<span style="letter-spacing:2.5pt"> </span>28<sup>th</sup><span style="letter-spacing:2.6pt"> </span>April<span style="letter-spacing:2.7pt"> </span>2017.<span style="letter-spacing:2.8pt"> </spa