NEOPLAN (GHANA) LTD vs. HARMONY CONSTRUCTION CO LTD [1996]DLHC584

Date	1996-05-14
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1996]DLHC584

BENIN JA

MRS GERTRUDE TORKONOO FOR THE PLAINTIFF.

GEORGE THOMPSON FOR THE DEFENDANT.

[1996]DLHC584
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">NEOPLAN (GHANA) LTD<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">vs.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">HARMONY CONSTRUCTION CO LTD<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MRS GERTRUDE TORKONOO 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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GEORGE
THOMPSON FOR THE DEFENDANT.<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The plaintiff sued the defendant
claiming the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 72pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">(a).&nbsp;&nbsp;“An order for the recovery of the
sum of ¢4,293,604.22 being the total cost of repairs carried out on the
defendant company’s vehicle.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 5pt 72pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">(b).&nbsp;&nbsp;Interest at the rate of 30 per cent
on the said amount from 14 April 1988 up to the date of final judgment.”<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The plaintiff’s case as pleaded was
that the defendant sent a vehicle to its workshop for repairs in April 1988. It
carried out the repairs at a cost of ¢4,293,604.22. But the defendant has
refused to settle the cost of repairs despite repeated demands made upon it to
settle. Hence the reliefs sought.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The defence pleaded the following
material facts, namely:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">(i).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;“That it sent the
vehicle to the plaintiff’s workshop upon the advice and direction of Messrs
Transport Maschinen Export &amp; Import (hereinafter called Transport
Maschinen) who are the principals of the plaintiff in respect of IFA trucks (of
which the defendant’s truck was one). The defendant was to inspect the damaged
vehicle and give a technical report on it to Transport Maschinen.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">(ii).<s</main>