[2024]DLCA17654April 18, 2024Court of Appeal

MADAM BEATRICE APPAH vs. ALEXANDER OSEI

JUDGMENT OBENG-DIAWUO (JA) INTRODUCTION This appeal emanates from the judgment of the High Court, Kumasi, dated the 31st day of March, 2022, in which the Learned Trial Judge dismissed the plaintiff/appellant’s claim and entered judgment for the defendant/respondent on his counterclaim. In this judgment the plaintiff/appellant will be simply known as the plaintiff and the defendant/respondent, the defendant. THE FACTS The facts that gave birth to the instant case are straightforward devoid of any complexities. They may be summed up as follows: The plaintiff is a Former District Director of Ghana Health Service. She started as a staff-Nurse in 1981 and rose through the ranks to the position of a Deputy Director of Nursing Service. She hit the ultimate in her choosing career when in 2004 she was appointed as the District Director of Health Service. In or around the year 1986, she met one Baffour Owusu Agyemang who was then an Auditor of PBC Limited and begun an amorous relati.....