ABOAKU vs. TETTEH AND ANOTHER [1962]DLSC1303

Date	1962-12-21
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1962]DLSC1303

SARKODEE-ADOO JSC

CRABBE JSC

AKUFO-ADDO J.S.C.

ASARE FOR THE PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT.

NO APPEARANCE BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENTS.

[1962]DLSC1303
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
color:#00B0F0">ABOAKU <o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B0F0">vs. <o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
color:#00B0F0">TETTEH AND ANOTHER<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#548DD4">&nbsp;[SUPREME COURT]<o:p></o:p>[1962] 2 GLR 165<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.5pt;
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DATE:<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
color:#00B0F0"> 21ST DECEMBER, 1962.<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.5pt;
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ASARE
FOR THE PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT.<o:p></o:p>

NO
APPEARANCE BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENTS.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM: <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.5pt;
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SARKODEE-ADOO, CRABBE AND
AKUFO-ADDO, JJ.S.C.<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>JUDGMENT OF SARKODEE-ADOO
J.S.C.<o:p></o:p>Sarkodee-Adoo, J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is
an appeal from a judgment of Ollennu, J., as he then was, whereby he dismissed
the plaintiff ‘s claim and entered judgment thereon for the defendants. The
plaintiff’s claim, by his amended statement of claim, is against the defendants
jointly and severally for the sum of £G418 whereof £G274 is the estimated cost
of repairs to the plaintiff’s car No. AF 2440 damaged as a result of an
accident between his said car and the second defendant’s car No. AE 1847,
driven by the first defendant, and £G144 the estimated amount of loss of
earnings for 48 days at £G3 per day for the period the car was undergoing
repairs.<o:p></o:p>The plaintiff alleges in his statement of claim that:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">“(1) On the 1st January, 1960, at about 5.30–6 p.m. Agyapong Wari
was in charge of the car No. AF 2440 which was stationary on the left-hand side
of the Fadama Road facing north. (2) The first defendant Abraham R. Tetteh in
charge of car No. AF 1847 owned by the second defendant who was travelling in
the same direction on the Fadama Road, that is the northernly direction
negligently drove against the back bumper and the rear side of the stationary
car No. AF 2440 and caused damage to it. (3) Particulars of negligence<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(a) Driving at an excessive speed. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(b) Failing to see the plaintiff’s car in sufficient time to avoid
collision with the rear of the car No. AF 2440. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(c) Failing to stop, to slow down, to swerve or in any other way
so to manage or control the said motor-car as to avoid colliding with the rear
of car No. AF 2440.”<o:p></o:p>In support of the claim, the evidence of the plaintiff and his two
witnesses, (namely, Agyepong Oware (his driver) and Joseph Daniel Akpakpo,
Inspector of Police, to whom the accident was reported by the first defendant)
briefly put, was that the plaintiff’s driver parked the car No. AF 2440 on the
left side of the road between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. on the 1st January, 1960; that
the second defendant’s car No. AE 1847 driven by the first defendant, ran into
and collided with the rear of the plaintiff’s said stationary car and damaged
it; the damaged car was taken to C.F.A.O. Motors workshop where it was repaired
at the cost of £G274 claimed herein and further supported by exhibit A being
receipts and other documents on the repairs.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The police officer in the course of his evidence said:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">“The first defendant was taken to hospital after he had made the
report because of serious injuries he had sustained. He was therefore not at
the spot when I arrived there. But I met P.W.1 at the spot. In the absence of
the defendants, P.W.1 pointed out a spot to me where he said he had left his
car. I saw tyre marks on the road which appear to be that of car AE 1847. I saw
car No. AF 2440 on the left side of the road facing Abose Okai. The road is 29
feet wide, according to what P.W.1 showed me, his car occupied only nine feet
on the left side of the road.”<o:p></o:p>