OBAAPANYIN NKETAA ADWOA vs. MICHAEL DONKOR [2012]DLCA8653

Date	2012-05-17
Suit No.	SUIT NO. CS21/03
Citation No.	[2012]DLCA8653

S.K.MARFUL-SAU J.A(PRESIDING)

C.J.HONYENUGA J.A

DENNIS ADJEI J.A.

STEPHEN SAH ESQ FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

CAB ADDAE ESQ FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT

[2012]DLCA8653
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >OBAAPANYIN NKETAA ADWOA<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>MICHAEL DONKOR<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF
APPEAL, CAPE COAST]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT
NO. CS21/03&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE: 17TH MAY, 2012<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>STEPHEN
SAH ESQ FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CAB
ADDAE ESQ FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT<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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S.K.MARFUL-SAU
J.A(PRESIDING), C.J.HONYENUGA J.A, DENNIS ADJEI J.A.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>DENNIS
ADJEI, J.A.<o:p></o:p>On
16th February, 2010 the High Court Sefwi Wiawso dismissed&nbsp; all the reliefs&nbsp; endorsed on the Plaintiff’s&nbsp; writ&nbsp;
of&nbsp; summons&nbsp; and entered judgment&nbsp;&nbsp; for the defendant&nbsp; for all these&nbsp;
reliefs.&nbsp; The court however,&nbsp; gave judgment&nbsp;
for the plaintiff in respect&nbsp;&nbsp; of reliefs&nbsp; (a) and (c) of the counter claim and further
gave judgment&nbsp; in respect of&nbsp; relief (b) of the Counter claim in&nbsp; favour of the defendant. The
defendant/appellant aggrieved by the decision of the High Court Sefwi Wiawso
filed an appeal to this&nbsp; court on 4th
May, 2010 praying for&nbsp; the reversal of
the&nbsp; judgment .<o:p></o:p>The
brief facts of the case were that the Plaintiff/Respondent hereafater referred
to in this appeal ‘as Respondent’ gave&nbsp; a
parcel of land&nbsp; to the
Defendant/Appellant hereinafter&nbsp; referred
to in this&nbsp; appeal as&nbsp; appellant to&nbsp;
cultivate on abunu tenancy. After the cocoa had matured the parties
herein partitioned the farm into two and&nbsp;
each of them took his/her portion. It came to the notice of the&nbsp; Respondent that the Appellant was&nbsp; selling his portion of the&nbsp; farm to a&nbsp;
prospective buyer and the Respondent dissatisfied with that
decision&nbsp; lodged a complain with the
paramount chief of Aowin Traditional Council at Enchi . The chief&nbsp; and his&nbsp;
elders heard the complaint and came to the conclusion that the
Respondent should be given the first option to buy as ownership of the land on
which the cocoa trees were situate was vested in her. The Appellant offered to
sell it to Respondent at ¢20,000,000(GH¢2,000.00) and the&nbsp; Respondent also accepted&nbsp; to buy it. The Respondent made a part
payment&nbsp; of GH¢550.00 to the Appellant
and according&nbsp; to the&nbsp; Appellant the remaining amount of GH¢1,450.00
was to&nbsp; be paid to him by the Respondent&nbsp; within two weeks. The Respondent&nbsp; too said that the transaction took place in August
and she was supposed to have fully paid the remaining amount&nbsp; to the Appellant within two months, that was
in October. Another pertinent issue raised by the Respondent was that in
accordance with the custom of the&nbsp; people
of &nbsp;Aowin whenever a stranger sells land
in the area, the&nbsp; Paramount chief is
entitled to one third of the purchase price and by virtue of that she paid one
third of the purchase price&nbsp; of the
Respondent’s Cocoa farm to the Paramount chief of Aowin. The&nbsp; Appellant however disagreed with the
Respondent and said that the total amount of GH¢ 2,000.00 was to be paid to
him.<o:p></o:p>The
grounds of appeal filed in the Appellant are as follows:<o:p></o:p>“(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That the judgment
is against the weight of evidence on record.<o:p></o:p>(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The
learned Judge erred in&nbsp; law when he found
for Plaintiff/Respondent&nbsp; inspite&nbsp; of&nbsp;
overwhelming evidence that Plaintiff/Respondent had not paid for
the&nbsp; disputed&nbsp; cocoa farm and<o:p></o:p>(iii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The
learned&nbsp; High Court Judge erred in
law&nbsp; when &nbsp;he ordered that plaintiff/ Respondent&nbsp; should pay&nbsp;
that balance&nbsp; of the purchase
price&nbsp; only after the judgment&nbsp; complained&nbsp;
of, when on the face&nbsp; of the
pleadings and evidence in court Plaintiff/Respondent was in breach of the
tenancy (abunu) agreement between the two parties”.<o:p></o:p>The
ground 1 of the&nbsp; appeal is that the
judgment is against the wei</main>