NEW FOUNTAIN MINISTRY INTERNATIONL GHANA (PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT) vs. JAMES OSEI BONSU (DEFENDANT/APPELLANT) [2010]DLCA7857

NEW FOUNTAIN MINISTRY INTERNATIONL GHANA (PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT) vs. JAMES OSEI B... [2010]DLCA7857

Date	2010-03-03
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO.: H1/241/07
Citation No.	[2010]DLCA7857

MRS. HENRIETTA ABBAN JA (PRESIDING)

MR. K. A. ACQUAYE JA

MR. E. K. AYEBI JA

MAJOR T. A. DARTEH FOR THE DEFT’/APPLT’

MR. D. K. AMELEY FOR THE PLT’/RESPT’

[2010]DLCA7857
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >NEW FOUNTAIN MINISTRY INTERNATIONL GHANA<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>JAMES OSEI
BONSU<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<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.:&nbsp; H1/241/07&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE:
3RD MARCH, 2010<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MAJOR
T. A. DARTEH FOR THE DEFT’/APPLT’<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MR.
D. K. AMELEY FOR THE PLT’/RESPT’<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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MRS.
HENRIETTA ABBAN JA (PRESIDING), MR. K. A. ACQUAYE JA, MR. E. K. AYEBI JA<o:p></o:p>

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</div>AYEBI, JA<o:p></o:p>This
appeal is against the ruling of the High Court, Tema, dated 18th
April 2007.&nbsp; In that ruling, the court
granted the plaintiff/respondent’s (herein
after called plaintiff) prayer for both an Order of Interlocutory Prohibitory and Mandatory Injunctions respectively against the
defendant/appellant (herein after called
defendant). <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
plaintiff grounded the application for the grant of the equitable reliefs on
the following matters:&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
plaintiff is a Christian religious body with its head office at Tema.&nbsp; In order to spread the gospel, it acquired a
piece of land at Dome, a suburb of Accra on which it built a church house and a
school.&nbsp; Defendant, one of its pastors,
was made the head of the church as well as the overseer of the school at Dome.&nbsp; Defendant is paid a monthly salary by
plaintiff.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>According
to the plaintiff, the name of the school, NEW
FOUNTAIN ACADEMY and of the church, NEW
FOUNTAIN MINISTRY were written on both buildings.&nbsp; But defendant without reference to it, closed
down the school and was converting the building into a private accommodation
for rental purposes.&nbsp; The defendant has
also established a new church called NEW LIGHTENING MINISTRY now boldly written
on the church house.&nbsp; It is the case of
the plaintiff that the defendant now uses its church auditorium for his own
church activities with his seventeen (17) members.&nbsp; As at now, the plaintiff’s members numbering
about 250 who have refused to be converted into the defendant’s church have no
place of worship at Dome.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The plaintiff asserts that the conduct of the
defendant is in total breach of his appointment as a pastor, and an overseer,
of its church and school respectively.&nbsp;
Hence, the prayer for an Order of Prohibitory and Mandatory Injunction
against the defendant.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In the writ of summons itself, the plaintiff
claimed the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;Declaration
that the church auditorium built by the plaintiff at Dome, Accra and the school
are the properties of the plaintiff.<o:p></o:p>