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EMMANUEL GABI-DAVIES AND ANOR
V.
RICHARD ANUM OFOLI

(2019) JELR 108146 (HC)

High Court 31 Jul 2019 Ghana
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- The plaintiffs approached the defendants to purchase 20 plots of land for a school project. - The plaintiffs paid an initial amount of GHȼ77,000.00 for 13 plots of land, with a balance of GH¢43,000.00 to be paid upon execution of the conv

Case Details

Suit Number:SUIT NO. LD/0211/15
Judges:BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY
Counsel:1. BABONYIRE ADAFULA FOR TASSAH TAFFAH TASSAH FOR PLAINTIFFS - PRESENT 2. BERNARD FIANU DEFENDANTS - ABSENT

JUDGMENT 

The facts of this case are that sometime in 2009, the Plaintiffs, who were looking for a parcel  of land, on which to establish a school, approached the Defendants, who offered to sell to  them twenty (20) plots of land, situate at Oyarifa in Accra. At the time of the transaction, a  plot of land went for Six Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHȼ6,000.00) and therefore the Plaintiffs  were to pay an amount of One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHȼ120,000.00)  for twenty (20) plots of land. The Plaintiffs accepted the offer and proceeded to pay to the  Defendants an amount of Seventy-Seven Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHȼ77,000.00) which,  they claim, was the equivalent of thirteen (13) plots of land, leaving a balance of Forty-Three  Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢43,000.00) to be paid upon execution of the conveyance. 

Subsequently, the Defendants informed the Plaintiffs that there was litigation over the land  they had offered to sell to them and promised to transfer same to the Plaintiff…

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