ELECTROLAND GHANA LIMITED vs. MADAM PAULINA ADOMAKO & KINGSLEY ADOMAKO

The plaintiffs, Electroland Ghana Limited, obtained summary judgment against the defendant, Madam Paulina Adomako, for GH¢1,004,747.70 with interest at the commercial bank rate from January 2014 until final payment, together with costs assessed at 7% of the judgment sum. In execution of that judgment, the plaintiffs sought to attach House No. 04800375 10 NNK 04, Ashalley Botwe. Kingsley Adomako, the husband of the judgment debtor, filed a notice of claim asserting ownership of the property. The dispute therefore turned on whether the attached property belonged solely to the claimant husband or whether the judgment debtor wife had a proprietary or equitable interest in it sufficient to permit attachment in satisfaction of her debt. Portion of judgment: “The matter before us was activated by the attempt by the plaintiffs to execute the judgment by attempting to attach House No 04800375 10 NNK 04, Ashalley Botwe in satisfaction of the judgment obtained. One Kingsley Adomako claimant the husband of the Defendant, filed a notice of claim to the property in question.”