[2009]DLHC16679 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">GEORGE E. AMUAH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">MR. J. M. AFRIYIE & 10 ORS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal; tab-stops:168.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0.2pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO. AC 18/2010 DATE: 23<sup>RD</sup> APRIL, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal; tab-stops:69.3pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">COUNSEL <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0.2pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">CHRISTIAN TEYE AZU FOR PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">F. K. YEBOAH FOR DEFENDANTS<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal; tab-stops:59.1pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">CORAM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">HIS LORDSHIP SAMUEL K. A. ASIEDU J. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0.2pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">RULING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">On the 22<sup>nd</sup> day of October, 2009, the plaintiff herein instituted the present action against the defendants for:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">“i) A declaration that Association International School’s PTA funds in PTA’s accounts at SCB, Opeibea House Branch and at any other bank in Ghana belongs to Association International School and can only be used for the benefit of the school.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">ii) An order against the Defendants to release all the money in Association International School PTA bank accounts at SCB, Opeibea House branch and any other bank to the Plaintiff to be used for the benefit of Association International School”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The writ was accompanied by a statement of claim. After the service of the processes on the defendants, they entered appearance thereto and filed a statement of defence in which they also counter claimed against the plaintiff for: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">1. The payment of present day value of the extra assets provided by members of 11<sup>th</sup> Defendant valued in 2002 as GH¢292,235.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">2. Account and return all monies from the members of 11<sup>th</sup> Defendant collected on behalf of 11<sup>th</sup> Defendant by the teachers of the school appropriated by the Plaintiff”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:.2pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family