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WILFRED CYRIL QUAYE ARCHAMPONG V. PRINCE CHARLES OTENG

(2016) JELR 107819 (HC)

High Court  •  SUIT NO. SOL 7/2012  •  10 Feb 2016  •  Ghana

Coram
PATIENCE MILLS-TETTEH

Judgement

JUDGMENT 

“Purchasers of land, who ignore signs of possession by a party other than their  vendor on the land, do so at their own risk and are likely to come to grief.” Per  Date- Bah JSC (as he then was) in the case of BROWN v. QUARSHIGAH [2003- 2004] SCGLR. Defendants herein rival claimants to the land in dispute noticed  structures on the land they purported to purchase, saw their vendor disappear  after payment of first installment of the purchase price had been made to him and they had notice that the land they purported to purchase had been sold  twice by their vendor and yet they proceeded with the purchase. They knew or  ought to have known of a grant of the land to the late Dr. Alfred Qauo  Archampong a private legal practitioner and yet they entered the land, served  notices on tenants of the administrators of the late Dr. Alfred Qauo Archampong  to vacate the land and deposited building materials on the land. The children and administrators of the said legal practitioner Dr.…

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