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FELICIA AMOAKO
V.
ABRAHAM OTCHERE

(2025) JELR 114638 (HC)

High Court 27 May 2025 Ghana
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- Appeal dismissed: Respondent’s title to the disputed property upheld, as corroborated by documentary and oral evidence; appellant’s counterclaim for ownership and breach of promise to marry rejected for lack of evidence and as statute-bar

Case Details

Suit Number:C11/02/24
Judges:HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE DR. POKU ADUSEI
Counsel:EUGENE ASARE ESQ FOR FRANCIS OPOKU ESQ, COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT EBENEZER ADDAI OSEI ESQ FOR ELVIS OFORI ASANTE ESQ, COUNSEL FOR THE PLAINTIFF/ RESPONDENT
Location:Kumasi

JUDGMENT

Dr. Poku Adusei, J.A.

The plaintiff/respondent [hereinafter referred to as the respondent) instituted an action in the District Court, Asokwa-Kumasi for an order asking the defendant/appellant (hereinafter referred to as the appellant) to yield vacant possession of a house numbered Plot 84 Block 3 Ampabame No.1 to him. The parties were in an amorous relationship for a number of years till 2004 when they parted ways. It was therefore a case grounded on love affairs gone wrong for which both parties now claimed ownership of the disputed property located at Ampabame No.1, a suburb of Kumasi.

The respondent’s case was that he bought the disputed plot in 1996 from the then Chief of Ampabame No.1, Nana Brano Acheampong, and that he was given a site plan to cover the said acquisition. For the respondent the disputed plot was re-numbered in 2012 as Plot 84 Block 3 Ampabame No.1, for which he was given an allocation note by the then Regent of Ampabame No.1 called Obrempong Sapah Adwere T…

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