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JOSEPH AMENYA
V.
AUGUSTUS TETTEH

(2015) JELR 108325 (HC)

High Court 18 Dec 2015 Ghana
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- The plaintiff issued a writ of summons claiming a declaration of title to a piece of land, damages for trespass, demolition of any structures on the land, and an injunction against the defendant and anyone claiming through the defendant.

Case Details

Suit Number:IRL 106/08
Judges:JUSTICE S. H. OCRAN
Counsel:MR. JAMES AHENKORAH FOR PLAINTIFF. DEFENCE COUNSEL IS ABSENT

JUDGMENT 

BY COURT: On 11th December 2008 the plaintiff issued out this writ of  summons accompanied by a statement of claim and claimed the following reliefs: 

a. Declaration of title to a piece and parcel of land and described same  b. Damages for trespass to the said land 

c. Demolition forthwith of any structure erected on the said piece or parcel of  land 

d. An order of injunction restraining the defendant and all persons who act or  claim through the defendant. 

In the statement of claim that accompanied the writ, the plaintiff traced his root of title  from the ApantseWe of La, being the allodial owners of a large stretch of land known  and called Shiashie land. The plaintiff pleaded further that the ApantseWe had been  registered as the freehold proprietor by the land Title Registry, Victoriaborg, Accra,  which body is now a division or Department of the Lands Commission. He the plaintiff also applied for Land Title Certificate upon the grant of the land and was  issued with La…

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