MARFO AND OTHERS vs. ADUSEI [1965]DLSC1830

Date	1965-05-03
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1965]DLSC1830

MILLS-ODOI JSC

OLLENNU JSC

ACOLATSE J.S.C.

OSEI BONSU FOR THE APPELLANTS.

HAYFRON-BENJAMIN SEN. FOR THE RESPONDENT.

[1965]DLSC1830
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MARFO AND OTHERS<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;vs.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;ADUSEI <o:p></o:p>[SUPREME COURT]<o:p></o:p>[1965] GLR 320<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DATE:
3 MAY 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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OSEI BONSU FOR THE APPELLANTS.<o:p></o:p>

HAYFRON-BENJAMIN, SEN. FOR THE RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MILLS-ODOI, OLLENNU AND ACOLATSE
JJ.S.C.<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>JUDGMENT OF ACOLATSE J.S.C.<o:p></o:p>This is
an appeal against the judgment of Bannerman J. given on 17 January 1963, in the
High Court, Kumasi, in favour of the plaintiff-respondent, hereinafter called
the plaintiff. The defendants-appellants, hereinafter called the defendants,
have appealed from the judgment against them to this court on several grounds.
The proceedings were commenced in the trial court at the instance of the
plaintiff upon a writ of summons issued out on 4 February 1961, in which the
claim was for:<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">“(i) One
thousand pounds (£G1,000) damages for loss sustained as the result of the
wrongful and unlawful sale of the plaintiff’s cocoa farms situate at Atamho (as
described in paragraphs (2) (b) and (8) in the statement of claim) which cocoa
farms the defendants had no right to sell, being as to £G660 special damage and
as to £G340 general damages. (ii) An order of court setting aside the alleged
sale of the said cocoa farms.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
material complaints averred in the statement of claim put shortly were that the
fourth defendant purchased at an auction sale conducted by the third defendant,
a licensed auctioneer, at the instance of the first and second defendants, two
cocoa farms under a wrongful and unlawful sale in respect of the farm described
in paragraph (2) (b) and that the first defendant had no right to exercise his
power of sale under a mortgage deed executed by him, the plaintiff, because the
debt had been paid off and secondly the first defendant and second defendant
had caused the third defendant to illegally sell the other farm situate at
Atamho which was not covered by the mortgage deed as security.<o:p></o:p>The
plaintiff’s case was that by a deed of mortgage dated in or about May 1957, he
mortgaged two cocoa farms to the first defendant to secure a loan and interest
amounting to four hundred and fifty pounds (£G450), as described under
paragraph (2) in the statement of claim, 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">&nbsp;“(a) One cocoa farm situate at Biemso on a
land called Mbotorno.<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) One
cocoa farm situate at Biemso on a land called Atamho and having boundaries with
a forest on one side and a timber road on the other side.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
present proceeding was the culmination of an action instituted by the plaintiff
herein against the first defendant herein, as the mortgagee, in the High Court,
Kumasi, claiming that in 1958 the first defendant wrongfully and unlawfully
sold the cocoa farm described in paragraph (2) (a) (supra). Judgment, in
exhibit 3, was given on 29 June 1960, in favour of the plaintiff, the mortgagor
under the mortgage deed, that the said sale was unlawful, and inter alia, in
the following terms:<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">“I
therefore give judgment for the plaintiff, set aside the sale of the
plaintiff’s cocoa farm set out in this statement of claim, order an account of
the proceeds of the cocoa collected from the time of the sale date of judgment,
but as no damage has been proved, I award no damage with costs assessed at out
of pocket expenses £G10 7s. 6d. Counsel’s fees assessed at £G26 5s.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>As a
result of the above judgment the plaintiff, the mortgagor herein, by letter
submitted a statement of accounts to the first defendant, the mortgagee, on 9
July 1960, under exhibit A, showing the sum of £G265 as the balance of account
due to him the plaintiff, to be paid by the defendant. This letter contained a
warning that on “failure to forward this balance to me, I have prepared to take
another step a</main>