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ANTHONY ATTA POKU
V.
KOJO DORBOR & 2 ORS.

(2019) JELR 111085 (HC)

High Court 6 Jun 2019 Ghana
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- The Court held that, while the plaintiff had valid title from the State, he was dispossessed of 0.16 acre of the land by the 3rd defendant, whose open and continuous adverse possession for over 12 years extinguished the plaintiff’s title

Case Details

Suit Number:FAL/400/2014
Judges:K. A. GYIMAH J.
Counsel:1. FRANCIS KWAME YEBOAH FOR PLAINTIFF. 2. STEPHEN BATSE FOR 3RD DEFENDANT.

J U D G M E N T 

Plaintiffs’ Case 

By an amended writ of summons issued on 18th July 2016, the plaintiff claimed the  following reliefs against the defendants: 

i. Declaration of title to plot No. 626, East Legon Residential Area, Accra  in favour of the plaintiff herein. 

ii. Damages for trespass against each of the defendants. 

iii. Recovery of possession of plot No. 626 aforesaid from the defendants to  the plaintiff. 

iv. Demolition of all structures on the land by the defendants at the cost of  the defendants. 

v. Perpetual injunction against the defendants, their agents and servants as  well as their assigns and successors. 

vi. Any other relief deemed fit by this honourable court. 

It is the plaintiff’s case that in the year 1988, after an application he had made to the  Lands Commission for a parcel of land was approved, the Government of Ghana through the Lands Commission granted a lease covering an approximate area of 0.47  of an acre over the land in dispute in his favour. He took …

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