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LAWRENCE BOULOS
V.
GEORGE KISSI & ANOR.

(2026) JELR 114802 (HC)

High Court 12 Feb 2026 Ghana
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- Plaintiff sought a declaration of title, recovery of possession, damages for trespass, and a perpetual injunction over a 0.26-acre parcel of land at Ashongman, Accra, claiming to have acquired the land in 2011 through an assignment and la

Case Details

Suit Number:LD/1050/2018
Judges:DR. ERNEST OWUSU-DAPAA, J
Counsel:JUSTICE ADUSA-POKU FOR THE PLAINTIFF. NO LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR THE 1ST DEFENDANT. NO LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR THE 2ND DEFENDANT.
Location:Accra

JUDGMENT

INTRODUCTION 

[1]. This case arises from a familiar but persistently troubling feature of  land litigation in Ghana: competing claims to the same parcel of family  land, traced through a common root of title, complicated by overlapping  grants, belated regularisation exercises and prolonged procedural delay.  At its core, the dispute invites the Court to determine, on the evidence  properly led before it, whether the Plaintiff has succeeded in establishing a  superior title to the land in dispute and is consequently entitled to the  reliefs sought, or whether his claim must fail for want of proof. 

[2]. The Plaintiff commenced this action by a Writ of Summons issued in  2018, seeking against the Defendants the following reliefs; 

  1. Declaration of title to all that piece of land measuring 0.26 acres he  acquired from Odai Ntow family situate and lying and being at  Ashongman, Accra in the Greater Accra Region of the Republic of Ghana  bounded on the North by lessor's land measuring …

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