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WILFRED CYRIL QUAYE ARCHAMPONG
V.
PRINCE CHARLES OTENG

(2016) JELR 107819 (HC)

High Court 10 Feb 2016 Ghana
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- The case involves rival claimants to a piece of land in Sakaman, Accra. - The defendants purchased the land despite knowing that it had been sold twice by their vendor and that there were signs of possession by another party. - The plaint

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Suit Number:SUIT NO. SOL 7/2012
Judges:PATIENCE MILLS-TETTEH
Counsel:NATHANIEL MYERS FOR THE PLAINTIFFS NKRABEAH EFFAH DARTEY FOR THE 1ST AND 2ND DEFENDANTS EKOW AMPA KORSA FOR THE 3RD DEFENDANT

JUDGMENT 

“Purchasers of land, who ignore signs of possession by a party other than their  vendor on the land, do so at their own risk and are likely to come to grief.” Per  Date- Bah JSC (as he then was) in the case of BROWN v. QUARSHIGAH [2003- 2004] SCGLR. Defendants herein rival claimants to the land in dispute noticed  structures on the land they purported to purchase, saw their vendor disappear  after payment of first installment of the purchase price had been made to him and they had notice that the land they purported to purchase had been sold  twice by their vendor and yet they proceeded with the purchase. They knew or  ought to have known of a grant of the land to the late Dr. Alfred Qauo  Archampong a private legal practitioner and yet they entered the land, served  notices on tenants of the administrators of the late Dr. Alfred Qauo Archampong  to vacate the land and deposited building materials on the land. The children and administrators of the said legal practitioner Dr.…

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