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ERIC NII ARYEE MENSAH
V.
VICTOR AUSTIN

(2025) JELR 113139 (HC)

High Court 13 Feb 2025 Ghana
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- The dispute concerned a 0.42-acre parcel of land at Kwabenya, Accra, with both Plaintiff and Defendant tracing their claims to grants from the Odai Ntow Family, the admitted allodial owner. - Plaintiff’s title stemmed from a 1999 lease to

Case Details

Suit Number:LD/0342/19
Judges:DR. ERNEST OWUSU-DAPAA, JA (Sitting as an additional High Court Judge)
Location:Accra

JUDGMENT

Introduction

[ 1]. By a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim filed on 14th January, 2019, Plaintiff claimed the following reliefs against the Defendant: -

i. Declaration of title to all that piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being at Kwabenya in the Greater Accra Region of the Republic of Ghana bounded on the North-West by proposed road measuring 50 & 45 feet more or less, on the North-East by proposed road measuring 150 feet more or less on the South-East by proposed road measuring 50 & 45 feet more or less and on the South-West by land of Nii Odai Ntow family measuring 210 feet more or less and containing an approximate area of 0.42 acre.

ii. Damages for trespass.

i. Recovery of possession of the said land.

iii. Perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant, his agents, assigns, servants, workmen from disturbing the Plaintiff from quietly enjoying his land.

iv. Costs inclusive of legal and administrative cost.

An Overview of Parties Case As Pleaded

Plaintiff’s case

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