QUARTEY vs. NORGAH [1967]DLCA1533

Date	1967-05-15
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1967]DLCA1533

OLLENNU JA

AZU CRABBE JA

APALOO J.A.

J. ARTHUR FOR THE APPELLANT.

TAGOE FOR THE RESPONDENT.

[1967]DLCA1533
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >QUARTEY <o:p></o:p>vs. <o:p></o:p>NORGAH <o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL]<o:p></o:p>[1967] GLR 319<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 MAY 1967<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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J. ARTHUR FOR THE APPELLANT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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OLLENNU, AZU CRABBE AND APALOO JJ.A.<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU J.A.<o:p></o:p>The
respondent, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, sued the appellant,
hereinafter referred to as the defendant and claimed:<o:p></o:p>“Thirteen
cows out of 46 cows produced by the original two calves deposited by the
defendant with the plaintiff for agistment or alternatively five hundred and
twenty pounds (£G520) being the value of the thirteen cows at £G40 per cow. Ten
shillings (10s.) being money which the defendant promised to pay in respect of
the first two cows produced, and Seventeen pounds ten shillings (£G17 10s.)
being balance of medical expenses incurred in respect of the defendant’s cows
deposited with the plaintiff.”<o:p></o:p>In his
statement of claim supporting the writ he pleaded inter alia:<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) The
plaintiff is a cattle owner possessing a kraal. <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">(2) By an
oral agreement between the plaintiff and the defendant in 1936 the plaintiff
undertook to agist, feed, breed and take care of two cows deposited by the
defendant with the plaintiff. <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">(3) In
the above-mentioned agreement it was agreed that the defendant should pay the
plaintiff five shillings (5s.) on each of the first two cows produced and that
the plaintiff should be entitled to the third cow and every subsequent third
cow produced as compensation for agistment, feeding, breeding and taking care
of the cattle. This is the custom of cattle breeders and the parties
specifically incorporated this custom in the oral agreement entered into in
1936.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
defendant denied these averments of the plaintiff pleading specifically in
paragraph (2) of her statement of defence, among other things, that “paragraphs
(2) and (3) of the claim are denied.” She pleaded in paragraph (12) of her
statement of defence 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">“Some
time in January 1939 the plaintiff without any lawful justification removed all
the defendant’s cattle from her kraal and drove them away. The matter was
reported to the police whereupon the plaintiff returned the same, but in the
process five cows were not returned, one bull died as well as three calves”<o:p></o:p>and
counterclaimed the sum of £G240 as the value of the cattle mentioned in
paragraph (12) of the statement of defence. The plaintiff filed a defence to
the counterclaim denying liability, and the parties joined issue.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
plaintiff led oral evidence of the alleged agreement and the terms thereof as
pleaded by him. The defendant also gave evidence denying and in addition put in
five letters, exhibits 1—5, written to her by the plaintiff. This documentary
evidence, admitted without objection, proved conclusively that there was no
agreement reached between the parties as alleged by the plaintiff.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
learned judge of the High Court, relying upon a passage he quoted from the
opinion of Lord Kinnear in the judgment of the Privy Council in Kwamin v.
Kufuor (1914) P.C. ‘74—’28, 28 at p. 36, which reads:<o:p></o:p>