BIRCH vs. ASEMPA AND ANOTHER [1991]DLHC1990

Date	1991-01-16
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1991]DLHC1990

ACQUAH J.

NUTSUGAH FOR THE PLAINTIFF.

AMANEY FOR THE DEFENDANTS.

[1991]DLHC1990
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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;;
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color:#00B0F0">BIRCH<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">ASEMPA AND ANOTHER<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, HO]<o:p></o:p>[1992] 2 GLR 416<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;text-align:right;
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JANUARY 1991<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>NUTSUGAH FOR THE PLAINTIFF.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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AMANEY FOR THE DEFENDANTS.
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</div>JUDGMENT OF ACQUAH J.<o:p></o:p>The plaintiff is the sister of one Francis Kudzo Adekpuitor, (hereinafter
referred to as Adekpuitor) currently residing in the United States of America.
The defendants are the personal representatives of one Seth Awumah, deceased,
who in his lifetime was alleged to have manufactured and offered for sale, a
number of cement blocks which are the subject matter of this suit.<o:p></o:p>The case of the plaintiff is that Adekpuitor and herself bought
7,000 six inches cement blocks from this Seth Awumah on 9 December 1981. A
receipt was issued to evidence the sale. After the sale they collected in bits
2,640 out of them, leaving 4,360 blocks at the premises of Seth Awumah. After
the death of Seth Awumah, which death occurred in 1984, she went for the
remaining 4,360 blocks, but the blocks were nowhere to be found. She and her
mother therefore called on the head and other members of Seth Awumah’s family
to demand the return of the blocks, but the family refused. Hence she
instituted this action on behalf of herself and Adekpuitor:<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">“against the defendants jointly and severally as administrators of
the estate of the late Seth Awumah:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(1). for the return to her of 4,360
6” blocks being the balance of 7,000 blocks which the plaintiff and her
brother, Kudzo Adekpuitor, purchased and paid for from Seth Awumah now deceased
in 1981 or the current value. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
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mso-border-shadow:yes">(2).
damages.”<o:p></o:p>The plaintiff’s only witness, the first plaintiff witness was not
present at the purchase of the cement blocks, nor present at any of the periods
when parts of the blocks were conveyed from Seth Awumah’s premises. However,
she testified that Adekpuitor and the plaintiff informed her that they had gone
to buy the blocks. She was also with the plaintiff when the latter called on
the head of the family to demand the return of the blocks.<o:p></o:p>The defendants’ case was presented by the first defendant alone.
He testified that he heard of the sale transaction for the first time when the
plaintiff and her mother, the first plaintiff witness, called on the family to
demand a return of the blocks. He was present at that meeting. He said that the
family had doubts about the plaintiff’s demand and so they demanded the
purchase receipt and examined it. But they found nothing on the receipt to
substantiate her claim that 4,360 of the 7,000 blocks bought were left at the
premises of Seth Awumah. Notwithstanding this doubt, he, the first defendant,
proposed at that meeting that the family offer ¢26,000 to the plaintiff for the
said blocks. For according to the first defendant, he was aware of the cordial
relationship existing between the plaintiff and the late Seth Awumah; and that
on the death of Seth Awumah, the plaintiff assisted the family in his funeral
arrangements. The plaintiff however refused this ex gratia offer. Under cross-
examination, the first defendant admitted seeing some quantity of blocks after
the death of Seth Awumah at the latter’s residence. But he was not further
cross-examined on what happened to those blocks; nor who disposed of them; nor
whether they, as personal representatives, had anything to do with those
blocks.<o:p></o:p>The issues set down for trial are:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;
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