KWADWO ASAMOAH ANING vs AC 01 CONSTANCE DES BORDES GHANA IMMIGRATION SERVICE, HQ
2019
HIGH COURT
GHANA
CORAM
- HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (MRS)
Areas of Law
- Property and Real Estate Law
- Civil Procedure
2019
HIGH COURT
GHANA
CORAM
AI Generated Summary
Plaintiff leased land from the Kplen We Family and after resolving initial encumbrances, he later faced trespass by Defendants who constructed buildings on the land. Plaintiff sought reliefs including declarations and damages. Defendants did not respond to the suit, resulting in a default judgment where Plaintiff's provided documentary proof sufficed to establish his claims. Plaintiff was granted the reliefs sought along with damages for wrongful dealings and legal costs.
Plaintiff’s case is that by a lease dated 14th May 2008, he acquired the land in dispute from the Kplen We Family of Agbawe for a term of ninety nine years.
Before acquiring the land, he conducted an official search, the results of which, revealed that a section of the land was affected by a transaction.
He therefore proceeded to register the unencumbered part which measured 1. 392 acres.
In the process of registering the unencumbered part of the land, he received a letter from the Director of the Land Title Registry notifying him of a multiple request for survey and preparation of parcel plan on the land in dispute affecting Plaintiff and Princeton Multipurpose Ltd. He therefore contacted his grantors, who admitted that they had earlier granted a larger parcel of land within which the section they had sold to Plaintiff fell, to Princeton Multipurpose Ltd. Eventually, Princeton Multipurpose Ltd transferred title in the affected piece of land to the Plaintiff and the Plaintiff obtained a land certificate covering the affected area.
According to the Plaintiff, while waiting for the issuance of his land certificate, his caretaker informed him of construction works being carried out by 2nd Defendant on his land.
The Plaintiff claims that his warnings to the 2nd Defendant to desist from working on the land in dispute fell on deaf ears as the 2nd Defendant succeeded in putting up a two storey building on the land in dispute.
According to the Plaintiff, while efforts were being made to stop the 2nd Defendant from further encroaching on the Plaintiff’s land, the 1st Defendant also emerged and began to construct a two storey building on another section of Plaintiff’s land in complete disregard of all warnings to desist from her acts of trespass.
The Plaintiff is therefore seeking the Court’s intervention to grant the following reliefs against the Defendants;
1. Declaration of title to the land in dispute
2. Declaration that Defendants have trespassed onto Plaintiff’s land
3. Entry of possession in respect of the land in dispute
4. An order setting aside the said transactions in favour of Defendants
5. Damages for wrongful dealings with Plaintiffs land by Defendants
6. An order of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant or her assigns from in anyway interfering with the Plaintiff’s land based on the said transactions
7. Damages in respect of trespass to Plaintiff’s land.
8. Costs.
The Defendants did not enter appearance to the suit or