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CHARLES LAWRENCE QUIST
V.
AHMED DANAWI

(2010) JELR 69794 (HC)

High Court 3 Jun 2010 Ghana
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- Held: A tenant who, through counsel, denies the landlord’s title to leased property is strictly liable to forfeiture, regardless of whether the denial was a result of mistake by counsel; a subsequent attempt to recant such denial does not

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Suit Number:SUIT NO.L220/94
Judges:HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE P. BRIGHT MENSAH
Counsel:JAMES AHENKORAH FOR THE PLAINTIFF,HAMIDA IDDRISU FOR YONI KULENDI FOR THE DEFENDANT

This case has a chequered history.

The Plaintiff issued the instant writ sealed in the registry of the court on the 20th day of April, 1994 endorsed with the relief set out below:-

“.............recovery of possession of or ejectment from all that the piece or parcel of land situate lying and being at OSU Re, Accra, 730 feet more or less south of Danquah Circle, bounded on the North by the 15th Lane (a public road), measuring 80 feet more or less, on the south by the property of a person or persons unknown measuring 80 feet more or less, on the East by the pro-perty of R. Jojo measuring 140 feet more or less and on the West by the property of E.C. Quist-Therson measuring 140 feet more or less the Plaintiff demised to the defendant and his brother Abdu Latif Danawi, now deceased, by an Indenture of a lease dated 17th January, 1977 registered at the Land Registry as Instrument No.2032/77 for a term of Fifty years commencing from the 1st day of February, 1977upon the terms and conditions …

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