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DR. ERIC GRAHAM & ANOTHER
V.
VIVIAN AKU BROWN-DANQUAH & 3 ORS

(2019) JELR 65252 (HC)

High Court 31 Jan 2019 Ghana
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- The plaintiffs claimed ownership of a piece of land in Ghana and filed a lawsuit seeking various remedies. - The trial court dismissed the plaintiffs' claims, but the appellate court overturned the decision. - The appellate court found th

Case Details

Suit Number:CIVIL APPEAL N0: H1/93/2017
Judges:A. M. DORDZIE JSC (Presiding, sitting as additional Justice of Appeal), F. G. KORBIEH JA, I. O. TANKO AMADU JA
Counsel:HUBERT SAVOR FOR APPELLANTS BEING LED BY GEORGE AGBEKO; PROSPER NYAHE FOR THE DEFENDANTS / RESPONDENTS.

JUDGMENT

A. M. DORDZIE, JSC:

This action is about a piece of land situate at East of Boi village in the Greater Accra Region. It is particularly described in the schedule to the writ of summons as “all that piece of parcel of land situate and lying at Boi in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana and containing an approximate area of 34.658 hectares (85.635 acres) more or less which is more particularly delineated on survey plan N0 Z5913 and covered by land certificate N0 GA 31351, VOL. 06 Folio138 dated 22nd December 2009”.

The plaintiffs contend they have been in peaceful possession of the property until the defendants forcibly entered, a few months before the institution of the action and started selling off portions of the property to third parties. The plaintiffs therefore instituted an action in the High Court, Lands Division on the 12th of November 2013 for the following reliefs:

a) Declaration of title to the parcel of land as described above.

b) Perpetual injunction restraining the def…

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