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KORKOR MENSAH
V.
ROBERY TETTEY MENSAH

(2016) JELR 108433 (HC)

High Court 24 Jun 2016 Ghana
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- The plaintiff is seeking a declaration that she is the proper person to take control of her father's land after the death of her brother, who was the father of the defendants. - The defendants admit that their father and the plaintiff are

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Suit Number:SUIT NO. FAL/291/2010
Judges:ELIZABETH ANKUMAH
Counsel:COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF: G S K BABANAWO ESQUIRE COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENDANTS: PROSPER YAW NTOW

JUDGMENT 

This action was commenced by writ of summons filed and issued out of the  Registry of the High Court on 29th June 2010. The reliefs sought per the amended writ dated 9th February 2011 are: 

a. “Declaration that the Plaintiff is the proper person to take control of the father Kwei Kumah Mensah’s land after the death of his elder  brother who was the father of the Defendants; 

b. An order of the court dividing the 119.47 acres of land into two equal  parts giving one half to the Plaintiff and the other half to the  Defendants as their father’s shares; 

c. The Defendants should account for all the lands sold/leased so far; 

d. Perpetual injunction to restrain the Defendants, their agents, assigns and lessees from going onto the land.”

It is the case of the plaintiff that the defendants are the children of her late brother called Tettey Mensah. Her great grandfather was called Nii Annang  Nukpa who at the time of his death was possessed of a large tract of land  at Sasabi near Oyibi …

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