NANA KWADWO GYASI COMPANY LTD. SUAME-KUMASI vs. SAND & STONE CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION [2016]DLCA5567

NANA KWADWO GYASI COMPANY LTD. SUAME-KUMASI vs. SAND & STONE CONTRACTORS ASSOCIA... [2016]DLCA5567

Date	2016-04-11
Suit No.	SUIT NO.: H1/27/2016
Citation No.	[2016]DLCA5567

AYEBI J.A. (PRESIDING)

TORKORNOO J. A.

DOMAKYAAREH J. A.

KWASI AFRIFA FOR APPELLANT

VIVIAN MFODWAA-GYAN FOR RESPONDENT

[2016]DLCA5567
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >NANA KWADWO GYASI COMPANY LTD. SUAME-KUMASI<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>SAND &amp; STONE CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></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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mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">SUIT NO.: H1/27/2016&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:
11TH APRIL, 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">KWASI
AFRIFA FOR APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">VIVIAN MFODWAA-GYAN FOR RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM: <o:p></o:p>AYEBI
J.A. (PRESIDING), TORKORNOO J. A., DOMAKYAAREH J. A.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>TORKORNOO, J. A:<o:p></o:p>The Plaintiff/Respondent (hereinafter
referred to as the Respondent) sued the Sand &amp; Stone Contractor’s
Association per the Chairman, Tanoso –Branch for: <o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The
recovery of the sum of Two Hundred and Ten Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢210,000)
being the balance due to the Respondent from the Defendant which said amount
the Defendant’s representative collected from the Respondent under the pretext
of selling a parcel of land to the Respondent at Tanoso, Kumasi which said land
was eventually found not be belong to the Defendant.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Interest
on the said amount from 10th January, 2013 to the date of final
payment. <o:p></o:p>The endorsed Defendant/Appellant
(hereinafter referred to as Appellant) entered conditional appearance and
contested the jurisdiction of the commercial court as a proper forum for the
resolution of the case set out by the Respondent. According to the Appellant,
the suit was a land dispute that had been dressed up as a commercial claim. On
28th April 2014, the trial judge refused that application and
assumed jurisdiction over the case. The Appellant did not appeal the decision
to assume jurisdiction over the case within 21 days as required by Rule 9 (1) (a) of the Court of Appeal Rules
1997 CI 19. It reads <o:p></o:p>9.
Time limits for appealing<o:p></o:p>(1) Subject to any other enactment
governing appeals, an appeal shall not be brought after the expiration of <o:p></o:p>a) twenty-one days, in the case of an
appeal against an interlocutory decision<o:p></o:p>In their defence filed after this
ruling and on 8th May 2014, the Appellant contended that the writ
infringes the rules of court and is incurably defective and that the writ
having been issued by Holy Trinity Chambers, same ought to be dismissed. These
allegations were not supported with details of what made the writ incurably
defective and why the issue of the writ by Holy Trinity Chambers should lead to
a dismissal of the writ. <o:p></o:p>