MOHAMMED YAHAYA ALHASSAN HOUSE NO T T 77 TUTUKA vs. KENNETH BEZUA, ZAKARIA ADAMS AND YAW KETEWA TENDAANA [2016]DLCA8441

MOHAMMED YAHAYA ALHASSAN HOUSE NO T T 77 TUTUKA vs. KENNETH BEZUA, ZAKARIA ADAM... [2016]DLCA8441

Date	2016-10-19
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO: H1/15/2016
Citation No.	[2016]DLCA8441

E. K. AYEBI J.A. (PRESIDING)

G. TORKORNOO (MRS) J.A.

A. M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) J.A.

SULLEY SAMBIAN WITH GEORGE FUSEINI FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT

NANA KWASI BOATEY FOR DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS

[2016]DLCA8441
																																						<div class="restriction-wrapper">
														<div class="container-lg">
															<div class="row">
																<div class="col-md-12 restricted-content">
																	<div class="restricted-content-img-wrapper">
																		<div class="lock-icon bounce-7">
																			<img class=""
																				src="https://www.dennislawgh.com/dl-assets/dl-images/lock-content.png"
																				alt="Subscription based content">
																		</div>
																	</div>
																	 
																		<a href="https://www.dennislawgh.com/login"
																		class="btn btn-primary btn-lg"
																		style="font-family: 'open sans'; text-transform: capitalize; border-radius: 8px"> 
																		Login to Read Full Case </a>
																	 
																	
																</div>
															</div>
														</div>
													</div>
													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MOHAMMED YAHAYA ALHASSAN HOUSE
NO T T 77 TUTUKA<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
color:#00B0F0;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">vs.<o:p></o:p>KENNETH BEZUA, ZAKARIA ADAMS AND YAW KETEWA TENDAANA<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS)<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;
padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">

CIVIL APPEAL NO: H1/15/2016&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 19TH
OCT, 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>SULLEY SAMBIAN WITH GEORGE FUSEINI FOR
PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">

NANA KWASI BOATEY FOR
DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS <o:p></o:p>

</div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">

E. K. AYEBI J.A. (PRESIDING), G. TORKORNOO (MRS) J.A., A. M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) J.A.<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>DOMAKYAAREH (MRS),J. A.<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
This is an appeal against
the judgment of the Commercial Court, Kumasi dated 17th July 2014 in
which judgment was given against the plaintiff/appellant herein (herein after
called the plaintiff).<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>BACKGROUND
OF THE CASE:<o:p></o:p>The
case of the plaintiff at the trial court: <o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The plaintiff, per his Writ
of Summons, Amended &nbsp;Statement of Claim
and testimony in court averred that in May 2011, he and the
defendants/respondents (hereinafter called the defendants) who are all members
of the Artisan Small Scale Miners Association Cooperative Society of Obuasi
entered into an oral agreement to use the defendants’ field as a passage to his
gold mining site.&nbsp; According to him, the
defendants agreed to allow him to use the passage through their said field but
on terms that the defendants would be given 3 out of every 4 portions of any
ore the plaintiff may discover and in return the defendants agreed to share the
cost of discovering the said site.&nbsp; The
plaintiffs case was that after working for some three months, they finally hit
the gold ore but before they could mine their share of the ore they discovered,
the defendants led some mob to threaten him and his agents never to go to the
land again and also threatened to kill them if they ever stepped their foot at
the site.&nbsp; The plaintiff averred that the
defendants have since been mining on the land and making about Gh¢10,000.00 every
week and have been in mining since September 2011 and that the defendants
refused to share the proceeds and also refused to refund his money of GH¢35,500
which he invested in discovering and developing the site.&nbsp; Relying on the above averments, the plaintiff
claimed the following reliefs against the defendants in his Writ of Summons:-<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>a)