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OSUMANU ALHASSAN
V.
FATIMA ABUBAKAR

(2018) JELR 108612 (HC)

High Court 24 May 2018 Ghana
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- The plaintiff, Osman Alhassan, filed a writ of summons on 23rd January 2017, claiming declaration of title, damages for trespass, recovery of possession, and accounts of rent collected from a piece of land in Madina, Accra. - The plaintif

Case Details

Suit Number:LD/0062/2017
Judges:JUSTICE K. A. GYIMAH
Counsel:SAM WOOD FOR PLAINTIFF A. A. SOMUAH ASAMOAH WITH NANA KYEKYE DARKO FOR THE DEFENDANTS

JUDGMENT

GYIMAH, J.

Plaintiff’s Case 

By a writ of summons issued on 23rd January 2017, the plaintiff claimed the following  reliefs against the defendants: 

i. Declaration of title 

ii. Damages for trespass 

iii. Recovery of possession 

iv. Accounts of rent collected from the land. 

The plaintiff described the land over which he has sued the defendants in the following  terms:

“ALL THAT PIECE OF LAND situate, lying and being at MADINA, ACCRA  and bounded on the North by proposed road measuring 80 feet more or less on  the South by proposed land measuring 80 feet more or less on the East by  proposed road measuring 120 feet more or less on the West by stool land  measuring 120 feet more or less and covering an approximate area of 0.22  acre.” 

It is the plaintiff’s case that in 1979, one Chief Seidu decided to sell his house on a  plot of land at Madina to one Madam Gertrude Agyekum but because the land on  which the house stood was La stool land and Chief Seidu was only a caretaker, Chief…

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