KPALGA-NA AND OTHERS vs. FUSHEINI AND OTHERS [1991]DLHC2036

Date	1991-04-10
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1991]DLHC2036

ANSAH J.

T. CUDJOE FOR THE PLAINTIFFS.

M. MUMUNI FOR THE DEFENDANTS.

[1991]DLHC2036
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color:#00B0F0">KPALGA-NA AND OTHERS<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">FUSHEINI AND OTHERS<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, TAMALE]<o:p></o:p>[1992] 2 GLR 326<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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1991<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>T. CUDJOE FOR THE PLAINTIFFS.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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M. MUMUNI FOR THE DEFENDANTS.
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</div>JUDGMENT OF ANSAH J.<o:p></o:p>The plaintiffs’ claims against the defendants are for:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;
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border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(1). “General and special damages
for unlawful arrest and imprisonment. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(2). General and special damages
for assault and battery. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(3). ¢84,000 being the value of two
bicycles unlawfully destroyed. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(4). An order of recovery of seven
bags of groundnuts and three thousand yam seedlings unlawfully seized or their
value of ¢98,000 and ¢15,000 respectively. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(5). ¢72,000 and ¢2,700 being the
value of nine doors and nine windows respectively unlawfully destroyed. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(6). Damages for trespass. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes">(7).
An order of recovery of the plaintiffs’ property and property of
the first plaintiff for the Ghana Education Service, particulars of which are
set out in the statement of claim or their value which were unlawfully taken by
the defendants and have been converted by them.”<o:p></o:p>The plaintiffs’ case as revealed by their pleadings and evidence
at the trial was that one day in or around March 1987, the first and second
plaintiffs were returning to Gbolung from a funeral when they were confronted
by all the defendants save the first. The said defendants alleged that the
first and second plaintiffs had revealed secrets of Gbolung to their
adversaries at Tolon where they attended the funeral. Their punishment for
these acts of betrayal was that they were to be killed on the orders of the
firs</main>