SEATEC LTD. vs. PENTON HOOK FARMS LTD. AND OTHERS [1987]DLCA807

Date	1987-02-12
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1987]DLCA807

ABBAN JA

OSEI-HWERE JA

WUAKU J.A

LARTEY-YOUNG (FOR NANA OTOAMFOM BEKOE) FOR THE APPLICANTS.

TAMAKLOE (FOR B.J. DA ROCHA) FOR THE FIRST AND SECOND RESPONDENTS.

J. K. AGYEMANG (WITH HIM AGYEMAN-BEMPAH) FOR THE CO-DEFENDANT.

[1987]DLCA807
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >SEATEC LTD.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;vs. <o:p></o:p>PENTON HOOK FARMS LTD. AND OTHERS <o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>[1987-88] 1 GLR 51<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DATE 12
FEBRUARY 1987<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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LARTEY-YOUNG (FOR NANA OTOAMFOM BEKOE) FOR THE
APPLICANTS. <o:p></o:p>

TAMAKLOE (FOR B.J. DA ROCHA) FOR THE FIRST AND
SECOND RESPONDENTS.<o:p></o:p>

&nbsp;J. K.
AGYEMANG (WITH HIM AGYEMAN-BEMPAH) FOR THE CO-DEFENDANT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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ABBAN, OSEI-HWERE AND WUAKU JJ.A<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>JUDGMENT OF WUAKU J.A.<o:p></o:p>Wuaku JA.
delivered the judgment of the court. The plaintiff’s claim reads:<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 (a)
Specific performance of an oral agreement by which the defendants agreed to
sell to the plaintiff and the plaintiff agreed to buy and have paid the sum of
¢800,000 to the defendants (i) one Komatsu motor grader model CD 37H No. 5183
at the cost of ¢535,000; (ii) One Hansome Hunt corn sheller at the cost of
¢175,000; and (iii) One old tractor four wheels at the cost of ¢100,000. (b) An
injunction to restrain the defendants their servants or agents from using or
disposing of or in anyway dealing with the machinery and for an order
preserving the properties, the subject matter of this suit, pending the
determination of the action. 2 Further or in the alternative the plaintiff
claims ¢5,000,000 damages against the defendants for breach of the agreement
referred to in paragraph 1 above. 3 Special damages for expenses incurred by
the plaintiff in executing the agreement. 4 Such further or other reliefs as is
just.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>During
the pendency of the suit there was an application for an interim injunction by
the plaintiff, the order given thereon resulted in an interlocutory appeal to
this court by the plaintiff-applicant herein. The result of the applicant’s
appeal culminated in these orders by the court:<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">“We now
order that the plaintiff enter into a written undertaking to pay to the
codefendant any loss or damage that he may prove to have sustained by the
operation of the order, if this suit is eventually terminated in his favour.”<o:p></o:p>The order
goes on to state 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">“We order
that the grader in question be driven to the yard of the Ghana National Trading
Corporation not later than seven days from today, and that it be held by them
till further order of this court or upon the determination of the suit in the
court below.”<o:p></o:p>The Ghana
National Trading Corporation was authorised by the order to let out on hire to
any reputable person or company and to account for the profits realised from
the hiring. The plaintiff gave the said undertaking in a document dated 19
September 1985, the last clause of which reads:<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
plaintiff herein in the terms of the said supplemental order undertake to pay
to the co-defendant any loss or damage that he may prove to have sustained by
the operation of the order, if this suit should eventually terminate in his
favour.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
action was tried before Amua-Sekyi J.A. sitting as an additional High Court
judge, and in his judgment dated 30 October 1986 he dismissed the plaintiff’s
claim in these words:<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
action of the plaintiffs is dismissed. I order that the grader be delivered
forthwith to Addison who is also awarded ¢4,789, 500 damages. I award costs
against the plaintiffs as follows; in favour of the second defendant ¢20,000;
the first defendant ¢30,000 and in favour of Addison ¢50,000.”<o:p></o:p>