<p class="mb-5" id="contentDlCitation" hidden>[2011]DLCA3090</p> <div class="restriction-wrapper"> <div class="container-lg"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 restricted-content"> <div class="restricted-content-img-wrapper"> <div class="lock-icon bounce-7"> <img class="" src="https://www.dennislawgh.com/dl-assets/dl-images/lock-content.png" alt="Subscription based content"> </div> </div> <a href="https://www.dennislawgh.com/login" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" style="font-family: 'open sans'; text-transform: capitalize; border-radius: 8px"> Login to Read Full Case </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#00B0F0;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">TANI GARIBA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#00B0F0;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#00B0F0;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">SHAMSUDEEN SEIDU DABO</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#00B0F0"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"> [COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI]</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">CIVIL APPEAL NO. H1/42</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">/2010 </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">DATE: 1</span><sup><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">ST</span></sup><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> APRIL, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%;tab-stops:.5in 1.0in 257.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">CORAM: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">MARIAMA OWUSU (MISS) J.A. (PRESIDING), F.G. KORBIEH J.A., IRENE C. DANQUAH (MS.) J.A.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoTitle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 115%;border:none;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoTitle" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">F.G. KORBIEH, J.A.</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">A summary of the facts of the case leading to this appeal is as follows. The parties apparently started off as very good friends despite the defendant/respondent’s initial apprehension which made him opine that “he had no interest in working with women. Working with women retards the progress of work and I don’t like working with them.” This opinion allegedly expressed by the defendant/respondent (according to D.W.2 in his evidence-in-chief (found on page 120 of the record of appeal)) was quite gender-insensitive but rather prophetic as later events showed. Be that as it may. The parties struck a working relationship through the instrumentality of D.W. 2 (Joseph Addai Abaidoo a.k.a. Abedi) and did some road construction works together; with the plaintiff/appellant (hereinafter referred to only as the appellant) being awarded the contracts for road construction and the defendant/respondent (hereinafter referred to only as their) supervising the execution of these contracts. The parties could not agree as to whether the respondent played any role in influencing the award of the contracts to the appellant but that matter is of no relevance in this appeal as indeed it seemed not to have been a matter that was germane to the issues for determination before the trial High Court. The work of the appellant as a road contractor seemed to have flourished to the point where she needed to augment her road construction equipment for which reason the respondent effected a transfer of his own bulldozer to her. After that more needed to be done and the appellant therefore dispatched the respondent to Accra to inspect and (if satisfied) purchase a grader for the appellant. Upon the respondent’s report that he was satisfied with what he had seen in Accra, the appellant remitted GH¢15,000.00 to the respondent through the latter’s bank account; GH¢14,000.00 of the amount was to be used to pay for the grader and the balance to cover the incidental expenses of the respondent whilst in Accra. Thereafter, also on the instructions of the appellant, the respondent proceeded to Kumasi where he again inspected and bought an engine for the grader he had bought for the appellant. Again, money, amounting to GH¢6,000.00, for the payment for the engine, was transferred by the appellant to the respondent through his bank account. The respondent then transported both the grader and the engine to Tamale from Accra and Kumasi respectively on the same low-loader which he had hired from Accra. The second-hand engine bought by the respondent in Kumasi however had to be rehabilitated or serviced and for that reason the respondent took a further GH¢700.00 from the appeallant with which to buy pistons and rings for the engine and a clutch disk for the grader itself. The engine was duly serviced and the clutch disk fixed to the grader. It would appear that it was at this point that the parties fell out. According to the appellant, the engine did not work because it was a generator engine. According to the respondent, however, the problem arose because the mechanic (P.W.2) who did the work on the engine demanded to be paid GH¢800.00 before he would mount the engine on the grader but the appellant refused to pay that amount. She then got a different engine fixed on the grader and asked the respondent to return the one he bought to the seller and get a refund of her money for her. The respondent did return the engine but could not get an immediate refund of the purchase money because nobody was willing to buy the engine immediately. After waiting for about one year (or ten months) without getting a refund of her money the appellant told some people that she was going to have the respondent locked up. She eventually carried out the thread and reported a case of defrauding by false pretenses to the police who arrested the respondent, locked him up in cells and then prosecuted him in court for defrauding by false pretenses. The respondent was however discharged by the Circuit Court before whom he was arraigned on the ground that the facts as given by the prosecution could not support the charge; the Circuit Court further advised that the matter was a purely civil one and the appellant could recover his money from the respondent through civil action. The appellant accordingly instituted the first of two cases (that were later consolidated) against the respondent for the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> “(a) The amount of ¢60 million being money paid to the Defendant for a grader engine in October, 2006 but which the Defendant has failed to deliver to the appellant.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> “(b) An order for the return of an old grader</main>
