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SAMUEL LARTEY
V.
ADJELEY ADDEY & ORS.

(2017) JELR 92073 (CA)

Court of Appeal 16 Feb 2017 Ghana
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- The case involves a dispute over the ownership of a plot of land and a building on the land. - The plaintiff/appellant entered into an agreement with the defendant/respondent to redevelop the land. - The defendant/respondent claimed that

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Suit Number:CIVIL APPEAL NO.H1/36/2016
Judges:MARFUL-SAU,JA (PRESIDING), ACQUAYE,JA, BARBARA ACKAH-YENSU,JA
Counsel:Emmanuel Dubik for the Appellant Richard Akpokavie for the Respondents

J U D G M E N T

MARFUL-SAU, JA :- On the 15th of March 2010, the High Court sitting at Tema delivered its judgment in this case dismissing the claims of the plaintiff/appellant and granting the counterclaim of the 1st defendant/respondent. The brief facts of the case from the record of appeal are that, the 1st defendant/respondent who had taken over her father's six bedroom zinc building at Ashiaman entered into an agreement with the plaintiff/appellant to redevelop the land, after part of the zinc building was destroyed by fire. By the said agreement which was tendered at the trial as exhibit 'G' the plaintiff/appellant was to totally pre-finance the construction of four stores and five bedrooms on the piece of land which had the zinc building. The agreement further provided that upon completion the 1st defendant/respondent would be entitled to two stores and two bedrooms, while the plaintiff/appellant will take two stores and three bedrooms absolutely.

The 1st defendant/respondent con…

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