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LILIAN AMANOR BOAKYEWAA
V.
K. BOADU

(2018) JELR 68831 (CA)

Court of Appeal 29 May 2018 Ghana
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- This is an appeal against a judgment in a land dispute case. - The plaintiff claimed to have acquired the disputed land through a lease from the Eastern Regional Lands Commission. - The defendant admitted that the land was part of the New

Case Details

Suit Number:CIVIL APPEAL: H1/21/2017
Judges:K. A. ACQUAYE JA (PRESIDING), S. K. GYAN JA, M. M. AGYEMANG (MRS.) JA
Counsel:MR. ISAAC OKYERE DARKO FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT,MR. FRANCIS POLLEY FOR DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT

JUDGMENT

AGYEMANG JA:

This is an appeal against the judgment of the Circuit Court Koforidua, delivered on the 11th day of July, 2016. The plaintiff/appellant (hereafter referred to alternately as the plaintiff, or the appellant) seeks a setting aside of the judgment of that court entered in favour of the defendant/respondent (hereafter referred to alternately as the defendant, or the respondent).

The matters that have given rise to the appeal are simply these:

The plaintiff, a resident of Koforidua brought suit against the defendant, a resident of Asokore. Both places are in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

It was the case of the plaintiff both in pleading and in evidence, that she acquired the land in dispute in 2011 upon a lease granted to her by the Eastern Regional Lands Commission. She described the disputed land as: Plot No. F8 situate at Sector 10, Block C Koforidua, bounded on the North by an open space, measuring 80ft more or less; on the East, by a proposed road measuring 130ft more …

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