Yillah v Hedjazi
Adverse possession of 12 years or more is required to successfully defend an action for trespass where a house has been built on another person's land. Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, 12 July 1983.
This decision discusses important principles of the law of adverse possession. In this case, the defendant was not able to prove that she had dispossessed the owner of the land for the necessary minimum period of 12 years even though she had lived in a house on the property given to her by her father for all her life. Reported by Abdul Karim Koroma.
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