STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION vs. AKAFO

JUDGMENT OF ANTERKYI J. The defendant-judgment debtors-applicants—the State Insurance Corporation which I will refer to in this ruling as the applicants—in these proceedings apply by motion and affidavit for an order to set aside the execution pursued against them by the plaintiff-judgment creditor-respondent (whom in these proceedings I will refer to as the respondent). The history behind this application is as follows: On 21 March 1973 the High Court sitting at Koforidua had given judgment for the respondent against one Charity Ago Tamakloe in a running down case, the accident having occurred at a time when he was insured with the applicants. The judgment was for the sum of ¢13,000.00 damages and ¢120.00 costs. After service of an entry of judgment on the said Charity Ago Tamakloe on 29 March 1973, and after complying with the provisions of section 10 of the Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Act, 1958 (No. 42 of 1958), the respondent by a specially endor...