FELICIA AMOAKO V. ABRAHAM OTCHERE

JUDGMENT

Dr. Poku Adusei, J.A.

The plaintiff/respondent [hereinafter referred to as the respondent) instituted an action in the District Court, Asokwa-Kumasi for an order asking the defendant/appellant (hereinafter referred to as the appellant) to yield vacant possession of a house numbered Plot 84 Block 3 Ampabame No.1 to him. The parties were in an amorous relationship for a number of years till 2004 when they parted ways. It was therefore a case grounded on love affairs gone wrong for which both parties now claimed ownership of the disputed property located at Ampabame No.1, a suburb of Kumasi.

The respondent’s case was that he bought the disputed plot in 1996 from the then Chief of Ampabame No.1, Nana Brano Acheampong, and that he was given a site plan to cover the said acquisition. For the respondent the disputed plot was re-numbered in 2012 as Plot 84 Block 3 Ampabame No.1, for which he was given an allocation note by the then Regent of Ampabame No.1 called Obrempong Sapah Adwere T…