AFUA ABRAFI, KOJO ADJEI AND AKUA BRUWAA vs. KOFI DARKO [2015]DLCA7994

Date	2015-04-16
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL: NO: H1/76/2014
Citation No.	[2015]DLCA7994

E. K. AYEBI (PRESIDING) JA

IRENE C. LARBI (MRS.) JA

I. O. TANKO AMADU JA

MR. F. K. BUOR FOR DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS

MR. AGYABENG AKRASI FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT.

[2015]DLCA7994
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >AFUA ABRAFI, KOJO ADJEI AND AKUA BRUWAA<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS)<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>KOFI DARKO<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[ COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<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: H1/76/2014&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: 16TH APRIL, 2015<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR.
F. K. BUOR FOR DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MR.
AGYABENG AKRASI FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT.<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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E.
K. AYEBI (PRESIDING) JA, IRENE C. LARBI (MRS.) JA, I. O. TANKO AMADU JA<o:p></o:p>

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</div>AYEBI, J.A:<o:p></o:p>Introduction:<o:p></o:p>This is an interlocutory appeal against the
ruling of a Kumasi High Court dated 31st July, 2013.&nbsp; In the said ruling, the trial High Court
Judge dismissed the defendants/appellants motion to set aside the plaintiff/respondent’s
writ of summons under Order 9 Rule 8 of the High Court (Civil
Procedure) Rules, 2004 (C. I. 47).<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Background:<o:p></o:p>In Order to appreciate the basis of the claim
of the plaintiff/respondent against the defendants/appellants and then the
defendants/appellants motion to set aside the writ of summons of the
plaintiff/respondent, there is the need to delve into history.&nbsp; One Kwame Adjei and Akwasi Appau were
brothers.&nbsp; Both of them have passed
away.&nbsp; Kwame Adjei was the husband of 1st
defendant and their children are 2nd and 3rd
defendants/appellants.&nbsp; In his life time,
Kwame Adjei sojourned in Holland, while his brother Akwasi Appau lived in the
country and worked as a driver.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Kwame adjei brought a car to Ghana but sold
it and banked the proceeds.&nbsp; Upon the
advice of his brother Akwasi Appau, Adjei withdrew the money and gave it to
Appau to buy Plot No. 6 Block K, Abuakwa Dadiese for him.&nbsp; But unknown to Adjei, Appau registered the
plot in his own name.&nbsp; Later, Adjei sent
a DAF 2100 truck and an Iveco Bus to his brother Appau.&nbsp; The Iveco Bus was given to the 1st
defendant/appellant herein to work with and use the proceeds to maintain
herself and her two children.&nbsp; The DAF
truck was ran by Appau who used the proceeds to put up the house on Plot No. 6
Block K, Abuakwa Dadiese for Adjei.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>On a visit to Ghana, it is said Adjei
completed two rooms in the house, lived there until he returned to
Holland.&nbsp; Shortly thereafter, Adjei died
in Holland.&nbsp; Akwasi Appau then laid
adverse claim to the house and then took possession of the two vehicles and
kept the proceeds for himself.&nbsp; In the
Circuit Court Suit No. LC 48/2003, the defendants/appellants herein sued Akwasi
Appau alias Parlance for:<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A
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