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FRED AMANPENE
V.
ALPHA MUSA

(2016) JELR 108348 (HC)

High Court 9 May 2016 Ghana
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- The plaintiff filed a lawsuit claiming a declaration of title to a property, recovery of possession, injunction, damages, and costs. - The plaintiff bought the property from a vendor who had obtained a land title certificate in 1992. - Th

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Suit Number:SUIT NO. IRL/159/10
Judges:MERLEY WOOD, J
Counsel:SAM WOOD FOR PLAINTIFF

JUDGMENT 

The Plaintiff herein by a writ of summons instituted this action on 2nd December 2009  claiming the following reliefs: 

i. Declaration of title to property 

ii. Recovery of possession 

iii. Injunction restraining the Defendant by himself, agent, workmen, assigns  howsoever from interfering before and after final determination of the suit.

iv. Damages 

v. Costs 

He makes these claims on the strength that he bought landed property being No. 6 Mango  Street, East Legon in the Bawaleshie enclave of land from a vendor who had put up the  property on land known then as Plot 688, East Legon. At the time he bought it, his vendor  had sold the adjoining plot to his neighbour. In 1992, his vendor obtained his Land Title  Certificate, built on the land and sold it to the Plaintiff in 1996 and he enjoyed peaceful  enjoyment of ownership and possession until 2007 when someone claiming to be the representative of Malam Musa challenged him.  

The Defendant entered appearance on 5th January 2010 a…

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