E.B. TIMOTHY KWAME BOTCHEY & ANOR (PLAINTIFF) vs. JOSEPH BANFUL& 5 ORS (RESPONDENT) [2004]DLCA7450

E.B. TIMOTHY KWAME BOTCHEY & ANOR (PLAINTIFF) vs. JOSEPH BANFUL& 5 ORS (RESPONDE... [2004]DLCA7450

Date	2004-12-17
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. 141/2004
Citation No.	[2004]DLCA7450

ANSAH J.S.C. [PRESIDING]

ANINAKWAH J.S.C.

DOTSE JA

CAB ADDAE FOR APPELLANTS.

KWAKU BAAH FOR RESPONDENTS.

[2004]DLCA7450
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >E.B. TIMOTHY
KWAME BOTCHEY &amp; ANOR<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">JOSEPH BANFUL&amp; 5 ORS<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL
APPEAL NO. 141/2004&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE:
17TH DECEMBER, 2004<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p>CAB ADDAE
FOR APPELLANTS.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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KWAKU
BAAH FOR RESPONDENTS.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>DOTSE,
JA<o:p></o:p>In
this case, the Plaintiffs/Appellants (hereinafter referred to as the
Plaintiffs) claimed the following reliefs at the High Court Agona Swedru
against the Defendant/Respondents (hereinafter referred to as the Defendants):-<o:p></o:p>(1) 1st Plaintiff’s claim against the defendants, jointly
and severally is for 10 million cedis as damages for trespass to 1st
Plaintiff’s land situate, lying and being at Gomoa Buduburam and measuring 640
acres more or less on mile 20 on the Winneba-Accra Road near Gomoa Buduburam
meant for cattle Rearing and known as “Nyame Na Dom.”<o:p></o:p>(2) An order for account of all trips of sand collected
from Budubram, the 1st Plaintiff’s land as “Nyame Na Dom.”<o:p></o:p>(3) ¢3,000,000.00 (Three Million Cedis) as damages for
assault by 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th defendants jointly and severally against the
Plaintiff on the 28th June 1994 at Gomoa Buduburam.<o:p></o:p>(4) An order for Perpetual Injunction to restrain the
defendants jointly and severally from operating sand winning from Buduburam
lands where 2nd Plaintiff is the Odikro and 1st Plaintiff is Ebusuapanin, which
lands at Buduburam, belong to the Plaintiffs Kona Patu Family of Gomoa
Budubram.<o:p></o:p>The
Plaintiffs accompanied the writ of summons with a Statement of claim. <o:p></o:p>The
defendants, per their Solicitors, NKRABEA EFFA-DARTEY on the 15th day of July
1994, entered conditional appearance to the writ which was filed on 7-7-94. <o:p></o:p>On
the 4th of August 1994, the Defendants per their Solicitors, then filed a
Motion on Notice to strike out the writ of summons praying for an order to
strike out the writ of summons “on the grounds of having no cause of action and
lack of capacity as spelt out in the accompanying affidavit.”<o:p></o:p>From
the appeal record, the Plaintiffs herein also filed an affidavit in opposition
to this application on 29-9-94. <o:p></o:p>There
appeared to have been a lull in this litigation, with the result that, this
application filed on 4-8-984 was not taken by the court until 28-11-2000 when
the Plaintiffs filed “Notice of Intention to proceed” pursuant to order 64r. 12
of the High Court, Civil Procedure Rules, LN 140A of 1954. <o:p></o:p>Before
this Notice to proceed was filed, the Plaintiffs had their Solicitors changed
from Aboagye-da-Costa to Kwesi Cab-Addae who actually filed this Notice to
proceed. <o:p></o:p>The
new Solicitors for the Plaintiffs, then filed a Motion on Notice on 19-11-2001
seeking “for an order of interim injunction restraining defendants, their
agents, servants etc. from all acts of alienation and wastage with special
reference to the disposal of land causing damage to building and sand winning. <o:p></o:p>From
the appeal record, the Defendants also seriously resisted this application for
interim injunction filed by the Plaintiffs. <o:p></o:p>It
appears from the appeal record that AGYEMAN-BEMPAH J, (MRS.) was the presiding
Judge at the Agona Swedru, High Court, from 12-10-94 up to 26-10-94. The record
indicated that, Woanyah J, presided over the same High Court, from 28-11-2000
up to and including 19-6-2002 when he heard arguments and delivered a Ruling in
the case. The Ruling delivered by Woanyah J on 19-6-2002 is in respect of the
Motion to strike out the writ of summons filed by the Defendant on 4-8-94. <o:p></o:p>In
that Ruling the court granted the application and accordingly struck out the
writ of summons. It is against this Ruling that the Plaintiffs have appealed,
urging the following grounds of appeal:- <o:p></o:p>