GEORGE A. SARPONG
V.
WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AND OTHERS
(2016) JELR 63887 (HC) 
High Court · SUIT NO. AP/43/2012 · 16 Jun 2016 · Ghana
CORAM
HIS LORDSHIP ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT Ratio Decidendi
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plaintiff
defendants
trassaco valley
plaintiff’s property
residential purposes
trasacco valley
relocation of plaintiff
statement of claim
evaluation of the evidence
high rise buildings
main access road
such promise
water supply
activities of the defendants
adjoining property
basis of the prayer of plaintiff
bedroom property
burden of proof
constant ocular view
construction of a building complex
defendants contractor
effect of sections
employees of defendants
evidence of the parties
following reliefs
former contract law lecturer
front of plaintiff
henry doe samlafo v
high court
invasion of privacy
mac dan v
part of the property
place of rest
plethora of issues
portion of the property of plaintiff
residential house
said letter
see benin jsc
simple case
such facts
superior court judge
tragedy of the case of the plaintiff
use of the classroom
years of occupation of this dream property
JUDGEMENT
BAFFOUR J.
I preface this judgment with the words of John Milton, a 17th century poet who served under Oliver Cromwell in England, in his epic work, Paradise Lost. He writes:
“They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,
Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate
With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms:
Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon;
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide;
They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.”
This sums up the tragedy of the case of the Plaintiff whose dream of an Eden like environment has been shattered by what he claims to be the activities of the defendants.
The plaintiff, a former contract law lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon, who in the dying embers of his glittering career in the academia was the director of the Ghana School of Law, on the 3rd of July, 2012 conceived and b…
