CRYSTAL CITY LIMITED V. PAUL AMOO GOTTFRIED AND THE REGISTRAR LAND TITLE REGISTRY

KUSI-APPIAH, J.A.

The issue in this appeal is a very narrow one of whether the High Court exercised its discretion properly in refusing the appellant’s application for interlocutory injunction to restrain “the 1^st defendant, his agents servants and assigns from putting up structures on the land in dispute pending the final determination of the suit herein and further order or orders as this Honourable Court may deem fit.”

The facts relevant to this case are that the plaintiff is a limited liability company registered under the laws of Ghana. The 1^st defendant, Mr. Paul Amoo-Gottfried, is a Quantity Surveyor who lives at CFC Estates, Dome, Accra while the 2^nd defendant is a statutory body which registers interests in land.

The plaintiff avers that it acquired the land from Carl Josiah Reindorf (Executor/ Beneficiary of Emelia Patience Reindorf of Accra) by a lease dated 23^rd of August 2005 stamped and registered as No. AC 8640/2005. The plaintiff pleaded that by a conveyance dated 20^th No…