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ERIC TETTEH KORLETEY
V.
BERNARD KORLETEY & ANOR

(2025) JELR 114637 (HC)

High Court 21 Jul 2025 Ghana
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- The Court dismissed the appellant’s claim of ownership to Plot 10 Block I, Abuakwa-Kumasi, finding that title and beneficial interest in the property vested in the estate of the late E.T. Korletey, not the appellant. - The 2020 allocation

Case Details

Suit Number:ASH/ADK/HC/E12/16/25
Judges:HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE DR. POKU ADUSEI
Counsel:PHILIP TUFFOUR ESQ AKWASI ARHIN ESQ, COUNSEL FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT NANA AKWASI OSEI BONSU ESQ, COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENDANTS/ RESPONDENTS
Location:Kumasi

JUDGMENT

Dr. Poku Adusei, J.A.

This is a dispute between uterine siblings over the ownership of a house numbered as Plot 10 Block I, Abuakwa-Kumasi. The plaintiff/appellant [hereinafter referred to as the appellant) commenced legal action in the District Court, Asokwa-Kumasi for an order of ejectment and recovery of possession of three (3) rooms and a store-room in the disputed property from the defendants/respondents (hereinafter referred to as the respondents). The appellant’s claim was that he acquired the disputed plot on 8 December 1989 from the Gyase Pinanko Stool, Abuakwa-Kumasi and constructed a building on it. It is the case of the appellant that he subsequently procured a new allocation note for the disputed property from Nana Asuboffuor Kwaw II, Otumfuor Gyasehene/Buabasah, the overlord of the Gyase Pinanko Stool Lands, and applied for a certificate of land allocation from the Asantehene’s Land Secretariat.

According to the appellant, upon completion of the construction of the…

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