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K. K. OFORI
V.
COL. ABDULAI MAHAMA

(2018) JELR 108327 (HC)

High Court 22 Nov 2018 Ghana
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- The plaintiff filed a writ of summons claiming declaration of title, damages for trespass, recovery of possession, and a perpetual injunction against the defendant. - The plaintiff asserts that he obtained the land in dispute through a gr

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Suit Number:SUIT NO. LD/0217/17
Judges:K. A. GYIMAH J.
Counsel:1. NAA DJAMAH AYIKOI OTOO FOR PLAINTIFF. 2. OLIVER ATSU ABADA FOR DEFENDANT.

DEFENDANT 

J U D G M E N T 

Plaintiff’s Case 

By a writ of summons issued on 27th February 2017, the plaintiff claimed the  following reliefs against the defendant: 

i. Declaration of title to all the piece or parcel of land described in the  schedule. 

ii. Damages for trespass. 

iii. Recovery of possession. 

iv. Perpetual injunction restraining the defendant by himself, his agents,  assigns, workmen, grantees, privies or by whosoever claiming through him  from entering onto any portion of the land and interfering in anyway  whatsoever with plaintiff’s land. 

It is the plaintiff’s case that he initially got the land in dispute by a grant from the  Katamanso Stool in 1992 which was reduced into a lease in 1995. He went into immediate possession and occupation of a portion of the land by constructing a dwelling house on the land. The plaintiff asserts that he failed to process his  documents at the Lands Commission. In 1996, his grantors made a grant in favour of  Regimanuel Gray Ltd. and they…

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