WOODEROX COMPANY LTD (WOX) vs. NAJA DAVID VENEER & PLYWOOD LTD [2015]DLHC17374

Date	2015-05-28
Suit No.	Suit No. RPC/270/11
Citation No.	[2015]DLHC17374

JENNIFER DODOO (MRS)

CELIA ASAANA

DENNIS ADJEI-DWOMOH

[2015]DLHC17374
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<a name="_Hlk154138250"></a><a name="_Hlk152146143"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
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ASAANA FOR PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p>

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JENNIFER DODOO (MRS)<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
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The
Plaintiff, a limited liability company averred that it was
granted timber rights by the
Forestry Commission with the concurrence of the Traditional Authorities for a 5
year period to expire in 2007. In
furtherance of exercising its rights, it entered into an oral agreement which
it later reduced into writing with the Defendant, another limited liability
company in 2004. Under the terms of
this agreement, the Plaintiff would avail part of its concession to the
Defendant based on a cut and cart
basis.<o:p></o:p>

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It was the Plaintiff’s case that after
stockpiling felled logs in the forest, the Defendant failed to evacuate them
causing them to deteriorate. It
therefore entered into an agreement with another limited liability company in
order to fulfill its social obligations to the community as earlier on agreed. Due to the Defendant’s conduct, the
Plaintiff stated it was unable to obtain a renewal of its permit to operate in
the concession when its licence expired in 2007. A valuation conducted on the number
of trees left to rot in the forest was commissioned.&nbsp; It showed
the value of the trees
left to rot as GH¢195,317.20.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The cost of procuring the valuation r &nbsp;&nbsp;eport also stood at
$4,000.00.<o:p></o:p>

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In view of this, the Plaintiff sued for
the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>

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