VIVIANNE STREHILE & ANOR V. MADAM ELIZABETH POKUA & ORS

JUDGMENT

TORKORNOO, J.A.

The 1^st Defendant (Respondent to this appeal) represented to the Plaintiff/Appellant that she was able to assist her to purchase land in Ghana for her children who were resident in Germany. The Respondent represented that she could obtain the said land from the 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th Defendants in the suit at the high court. After giving Ghȼ100,000.0 to the Respondent to send to the other Defendants ostensibly for the land in South Legon, it turned out that the 2^nd to 5^th Defendants could not deliver the land. First the land shown to Appellant was actually on record as government land, and second, it was encumbered by a lease to a third party. The Appellant sued the Respondent for

a. Ghȼ100,000.00 being the amount paid to the 1^st Defendant as the purchase price of the two (2) plots of land for onward transmission to the 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th Defendants.

b. Ghȼ18,000.00 being the money spent to build and repair the fence wall.

c. Ghȼ1,200.00.00 spent on land guards t…