MULTIGROUP CONSULTANTS LTD AND KWABENA BOADI-ABOAGYE vs. ELIZABETH DUFOUR POKU AND MICHAEL DUFOUR POKU [2016]DLCA7983

MULTIGROUP CONSULTANTS LTD AND KWABENA BOADI-ABOAGYE vs. ELIZABETH DUFOUR POKU... [2016]DLCA7983

Date	2016-04-21
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL N0: H1/114/2015
Citation No.	[2016]DLCA7983

S. MARFUL-SAUJA (PRESIDING)

A. M. DORDZIE JA

L. L. MENSAH JA

MARTIN AGYEI-SAMPONG FOR THE APPELLANT

ALIDU MOHAMMED FOR RESPONDENT

[2016]DLCA7983
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MULTIGROUP
CONSULTANTS LTD AND KWABENA BOADI-ABOAGYE<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
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Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#00B0F0"><o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>ELIZABETH
DUFOUR POKU AND MICHAEL DUFOUR POKU<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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N0:&nbsp; H1/114/2015<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
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21ST APRIL, 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MARTIN AGYEI-SAMPONG FOR THE APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MOHAMMED FOR RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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(PRESIDING), <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
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L. MENSAH JA<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>AGNES M.A. DORDZIE, JA:-<o:p></o:p>FACTS:<o:p></o:p>The
2nd defendant appellant Kwabena Boadi-Aboagye and Yaw Samuel Dufour-Poku
(deceased) were good friends. They both formed the 1st defendant company; the
two were the only directors and each of them&nbsp;&nbsp;
owned 50% shares in the company.<o:p></o:p>Yaw
Samuel Dufour-Poku died in April 2005. The plaintiffs are his widow and son
respectively and the beneficiaries of his will. It is alleged by the plaintiffs
that the 2nd defendant at the death of their relative misrepresented facts
about his interest in the 1st defendant company to them. According to the
plaintiffs though the company is a limited liability company with the deceased
owning 50% of its shares the 2nd defendant presented to them that the business
is a partnership and paid GHc15,000 to the plaintiffs as the deceased's
interest in the alleged partnership.<o:p></o:p>According
to the plaintiffs it took a search at the Registrar General's Office to know
the state of affairs of the 1st defendant company and the interest the deceased
held in the said company. To the plaintiffs the affairs of the company are
being conducted in a manner which is oppressive to the interest of the estate
of the deceased as a director/ shareholder of the company and by extension the
interest of the plaintiffs. They therefore instituted an action in the High
Court Accra (commercial Division) praying for the following declarations:<o:p></o:p>a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
That the deceased Yaw Samuel
Dufour-Poku held 50% shares in the 1st defendant company prior to his death in
April 2005.<o:p></o:p>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
That plaintiffs as the
devisees and beneficiaries of the will of the late Dufour-Poku they, or their
representatives are entitled to be registered as shareholders and directors of
the 1st defendant company to protect their interest; and a further order
directed at defendants to substitute the deceased with the plaintiffs or their
chosen representatives as shareholders and directors of the 1st defendant
company.<o:p></o:p>c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
That the affairs of the 1st
defendant </main>