SANYO ELECTRIC TRADING CO vs. QUACOOPOME [2003]DLCA1265

Date	2003-01-16
Suit No.
Citation No.	[2003]DLCA1265

OMARI-SASU JA

ANSAH JA

ASIAMAH JA

WILLIE AMARFIO FOR THE APPELLANT.

ROBERT KOKUVIE TAY FOR THE RESPONDENT.

[2003]DLCA1265
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color:#00B0F0">SANYO ELECTRIC TRADING CO<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">QUACOOPOME<o:p></o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>[2001-2002]
2 GLR 198<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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padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">Date: 16 JANUARY 2003<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>WILLIE
AMARFIO FOR THE APPELLANT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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ROBERT
KOKUVIE TAY FOR THE RESPONDENT. <o:p></o:p>

OMARI-SASU,
ANSAH AND ASIAMAH JJA<o:p></o:p>

</div>JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p>Asiamah JA. <o:p></o:p>This
is an interlocutory appeal against the ruling of the High Court, Accra dated 21
May 2001. The plaintiff in the action instituted a writ of summons against the
defendant seeking the following reliefs:<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:
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Damages for breach of an oral contract made in or about 1970, appointing the
plaintiff director of the defendant company, under and by virtue of which the
plaintiff has worked and rendered services as director of the defendant
company, for which the defendant have failed or refused or both to pay the
plaintiff’s reasonable director’s fees and lump sum remuneration as agreed. <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:
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Mesne profit. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
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Interest on the said amount at the prevailing bank rate.”<o:p></o:p>Upon
the service of the writ of summons and statement of claim on Sanyo Electric Co
Ltd on 9 February 2001, the Sanyo Electric Co Ltd entered appearance under
protest through its general manager. The rationale underpinning the appearance
under protest is imbedded in paragraphs (6) and (12) of the of the affidavit in
support of the appellant’s motion on notice filed on 20 February 2001, which
sought an order from the trial High Court to dismiss the plaintiff’s action
“for incompetence, lack of jurisdiction.” The said paragraphs read:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
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That on the plaintiff’s own showing, Sanyo Electric Trading Co Ltd only holds
shares in Ghana Sanyo Co . . . <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:
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That the defendant company is not registered in Ghana, and does not do any
business here, save its shareholding aforesaid.”<o:p></o:p>Meanwhile
the plaintiff had also earlier on filed a motion on notice for an interlocutory
“injunction and for security”<o:p></o:p>