AMOAH V. POKU [1965]DLSC1775

Date	1965-03-15
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1965]DLSC1775

MILLS-ODOI JSC

OLLENNU JSC

SIRIBOE J.S.C.

APPELLANT IN PERSON.

VICTOR OWUSU FOR THE RESPONDENT.

[1965]DLSC1775
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >AMOAH <o:p></o:p>vs. <o:p></o:p>POKU <o:p></o:p>[SUPREME COURT]<o:p></o:p>[1965] GLR 155<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DATE:
15 MARCH 1965.<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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APPELLANT IN PERSON.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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MILLS-ODOI, OLLENNU AND SIRIBOE JJ.S.C.<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU J.S.C.<o:p></o:p>Ollennu
J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from two rulings
given by Djabanor J. one on 22 April 1963, another on 26 April 1963, and a
judgment given by him on 3 May 1963, consequent upon his said two rulings.
Before the learned judge was a claim and counterclaim in respect of a cocoa
farm originally owned by the defendant-appellant, which the plaintiff purchased
at an auction sale held at the instance of one Kwaku Manu in purported exercise
of power of sale under a mortgage of the same to him by the defendant. The
issues which the learned judge was called upon to resolve were not without some
difficulties as is revealed in the history of the dispute.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>By deed
of mortgage dated 4 June 1956, the defendant mortgaged his farm to Kwaku Manu
to secure cash advances to the limit of £G500 to be made by Kwaku Manu to him
for the purchase and supply of cocoa to the said Kwaku Manu for the duration of
the 1956-57 cocoa season. The relevant part of the mortgage in that behalf is
as follows:<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
mortgagee has at the request of the mortgagor agreed to advance the mortgagor
the sum of £G500 for the purpose of buying cocoa beans and delivering same to
the mortgagee at Teppa during the 1956-57 cocoa season until at the close of
the season so that any amount of money collected shall be accounted for.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
mortgage further provided that if default of payment is made upon the
expiration of the period the mortgagee could exercise his right of sale after
“giving one month’s notice in writing to the mortgagor to pay off the same, and
if the mortgagor shall still have failed to pay the mortgage debt then
remaining due and owing on this security one month next after the time of
giving any such notice.” The 1956-57 cocoa season closed on 28 February 1957,
as by Gazette Notice No. 331 of 9 February 1957, which stated that “the current
main crop season will close on Thursday the 28th day of February 1957.” Without
waiting for the season to end and without going into accounts with the
defendant to ascertain whether or not any amount was due and owing to him,
Kwaku Manu on 10 January 1957, purported to give notice to the defendant, and
on 8 March 1957, sold the property at a public auction. The plaintiff was
declared the purchaser at the sale.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>After
some correspondence had passed between the defendant on the one part and Kwaku
Manu and the plaintiff on the other, the defendant, on 3 August 1957,
instituted an action against the plaintiff and Kwaku Manu and in it, claimed:<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) A
declaration that since the first defendant did not serve the plaintiff with
default notice, the sale of the plaintiff’s cocoa farm situated at a place
commonly called Twemayeagya on or about 9 March 1957 by the first defendant is
wrongful. <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) A
declaration that the document under which the first defendant purported to
exercise power of sale is not a legal deed of mortgage, and that the sale of
the plaintiff’s cocoa farm under and by virtue of the said document is
wrongful. <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) An
order of the court setting aside the said sale of the plaintiff’s said cocoa
farm. <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">(d) £G300
damages against the first defendant for the wrongful sale of the plaintiff’s
said cocoa farm.”<o:p></o:p><s</main>