[2024]DLCA17914November 28, 2024Court of Appeal

YAA KONADU vs. KWABENA BOADU

JUDGMENT MENSAH-HOMIAH, JA. INTRODUCTION This is an appeal from the Judgment of the Circuit Court, Offinso, delivered on 6th July 2023 in which the plaintiff/appellant’s claims for recovery of money and interest thereon were dismissed by the trial court. The plaintiff/appellant contends in this appeal that the trial Judge erred in dismissing his claims and entering Judgment in part on the defendant/respondent’s counterclaim. In this delivery, we shall maintain the designations of the parties at the court below. Thus, the plaintiff/appellant will simply be referred to as the plaintiff, and the defendant/respondent, as the defendant. THE FACTS On or about 10th February 2019, the plaintiff who described herself as a Sand & Stone Contractor entered into an oral agreement with the defendant. By this agreement, it was alleged that the defendant promised to give the sum of One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH₵120,000.00) to the plaintiff in two years if the ...