ARMAH V. LANDS COMMISSION, ACCRA AND OTHERS

AMPIAH J.

The plaintiff-applicant seeks by this application an order of interim injunction to restrain the second and third defendants-respondents herein, their agents, servants or workmen or both from entering the land in dispute for any purpose whatsoever during the pendency of this suit and until the final hearing and determination thereof.

By a deed of conveyance dated 21 May 1958, duly stamped and registered as No. 1494/1958 with the deeds registry and tendered as exhibit 1 in this application, the applicant became the absolute owner of the land, the subject-matter in dispute. By an executive instrument, E.I. 85, issued in 1968, the applicant’s said piece of land together with other pieces of land was compulsorily acquired by the government for the purpose of a new cemetery for Accra-Odorkor. The land became thus vested in the Lands Commission, the first defendant in this case, for the intended purpose said to be in the public interest. The land thus acquired was however not used …