RICHARD OPATA
V.
LAWRENCE KWEKU AZAMETSI

(2017) JELR 108680 (HC)

High Court · SUIT NO. LDA/0003/2016 · 9 May 2017 · Ghana

CORAM

EMMANUEL AMO YARTEY

Core Terms ^Beta

land

plaintiff

defendants

parties

trial judge

arbitration award

said land

subject matter

trial court

findings of fact

learned judge

properties of osofo yaw

recovery of possession

district court

following reliefs

j. f. wulff

land title certificate

preponderance of probabilities

properties of epode

sufficient evidence

trite learning

acts of trespass

a. declaration of title

allocation of the burden of proof

arbitration committee award

beneficial owner of the land

case of the plaintiff

conclusive evidence

counter claim

declaration of ownership of a piece

evaluation of the entire evidence

exact determination of the situation of parties lands

family head of aboa kofi family

judgment of the district magistrate court

lands commission

land title certificate no. td

legal principle

main grounds

piece of land

plaintiff’s case

plaintiff’s claim

property of wule family

real standard

record of proceedings

registration of that land

weight of the evidence

JUDGMENT

This is an appeal against the judgment of the District Magistrate Court, Dodowa dated 3rd December, 2013.

At the trial court the Plaintiff asked for the following reliefs against the Defendants:

1. Declaration of ownership of a piece of land situate and lying at a place commonly known and called Ponpontiso at Amaganya and covering an approximate area of 4.68 acres and bounded as follows; on the East by the properties of Osofo Yaw and J. F. Wulff, on the South by properties of Epode, Okoe Mensah and Okoe Annan, on the West by properties of J. F. Wulff and Amankwa and North by the properties of Soa Agbeve/Azamatsi.

2. GH¢5,000.00 (Five Thousand Ghana Cedis) special and general damages for trespass.

3. Perpetual injunction restraining the Defendants, their workers, servants, privies from further entering the said land.

4. Cost.

The Defendants per their statement of defence, counterclaimed for the following reliefs against the Plaintiff:

A. Declaration of title to the piece …

RICHARD OPATA V. LAWRENCE KWEKU AZAMETSI

RICHARD OPATA
V.
LAWRENCE KWEKU AZAMETSI