TISMARK INJA vs. TINA DEHEER , AMELIA LAING [2023]DLSC16163

Date	2023-03-29
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/43/2021
DL Citation No.	[2023]DLSC16163

• DOTSE JSC (PRESIDING)

• LOVELACE-JOHNSON (MS.) JSC

• AMADU JSC

• PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC

• KULENDI JSC

• NANA AGYEI BAFFOUR-AWUAH ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS/

• APPELLANTS WITH HIM THERESA TABI ESQ.

• KWAMI ADOBOR ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT

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 <main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >TISMARK
INJA&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>TINA DEHEER&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>(1ST
DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT) <o:p></o:p>AMELIA LAING<o:p></o:p>(2ND DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>[SUPREME
COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

CIVIL APPEAL NO.
J4/43/2021&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;DATE:
29TH MARCH 2023<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

NANA AGYEI BAFFOUR-AWUAH ESQ. FOR THE
DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS/<o:p></o:p>

APPELLANTS WITH HIM THERESA TABI ESQ.<o:p></o:p>

KWAMI ADOBOR ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>DOTSE JSC (PRESIDING), LOVELACE-JOHNSON (MS.) JSC, AMADU
JSC, PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC, KULENDI JSC&nbsp;&nbsp;
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</div>&nbsp;PROF.
MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC:-<o:p></o:p>1.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
This
case has come to this honourable court on appeal from a judgment of the Court
of Appeal dated 4th June 2020. A transaction between two close friends got
entangled in the vicissitudes of Ghana’s constitutional history with
regrettable results. As a character in William Shakespeare’s famous Play ‘Hamlet’ counsels his son, <o:p></o:p>“This above all: To thine own self be true<o:p></o:p>And it must follow as the night the day<o:p></o:p>Thou canst not then be false to any man.”<o:p></o:p>Facts
and Background<o:p></o:p>2. The plaintiff was the owner of House No. 9 2nd
Close, Airport Residential Area, Accra (herein referred to as ‘the
subject-property’). He acquired the property by Deed of Assignment dated 27th
June 1978 from one Emanuel Richard Ofori. He let his friend and former employee
Group Captain Timothy Laing occupy the property, rent-free with his family in
1981. In 1982, he formed a shipping company, Remco Shipping Company, with a
foreign investor. He held 50% shares of the company, and was its Managing
Director. In that capacity, he employed his friend Group Captain Timothy Laing
(now deceased), as the General Manager. <o:p></o:p>3. The company got into some difficulties with the
authorities over an alleged shipload of Ghana’s cocoa that was supposed to have
disappeared on one of Remco Shipping Company’s ships on the high seas. The
company was forced to fold up in 1986. The plaintiff later fled abroad and
remained in exile until the government went out of office in 2001. In 1989,
however, he was notified by the Government of Ghana that the subject-property
had been confisc</main>