<h2 class="ql-align-center">JUDGMENT</h2><p><strong>A.M. DORDZIE, JA</strong></p><p>The background to the dispute between the parties culminating in this appeal before us is that on 31st of January 2005 the plaintiff respondent herein issued a writ against the defendant appellant in the High Court Accra seeking the following reliefs: (for the purposes of clarity I will in this judgment refer to the parties simply as plaintiff and defendant).</p><p>1. Declaration of title to a piece of land measuring 0.27 of an acre situate at Osu</p><p>2. General damages for trespass</p><p>3. Recovery of possession</p><p>4. Perpetual injunction restraining the defendant his servants, agents, assigns and anybody claiming through him from further trespassing on the land in dispute.</p><p>The defendant who claims he validly purchased the land before the sale to plaintiff counter claimed for:</p><p>a) Declaration of title to the same land.</p><p>b) An order cancelling the land certificate N0. GA 16774 issued to the plaintiff by the Land Title Registry on grounds of fraud or mistake.</p><p>c) Perpetual injunction restra…</p>