KWADWO KUMI vs. EDITH AKYEA ADDY & 4 ORS [2016]DLHC11917

Date	2016-12-12
Suit No.	SUIT NO. BMISC 113/2015
Citation No.	[2016]DLHC11917

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE PATIENCE-MILLS TETTEH

T. N. WARD BREW FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

NATHAN YARNEY FOR DEFENDANT/APPLICANT

[2016]DLHC11917
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KWADWO KUMI <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>EDITH
AKYEA ADDY &amp; 4 ORS <o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">SUIT NO. BMISC 113/2015&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: 12TH&nbsp;DECEMBER
2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL&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; <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT <o:p></o:p>

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DEFENDANT/APPLICANT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE PATIENCE-MILLS
TETTEH<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

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</div>This
is a motion by the defendant applicant herein to dismiss this action on grounds
of an abuse of the court process. The plaintiff commenced the instant action
seeking 14 reliefs which in sum, seek to restrict the enforcement of a judgment
obtained in Suit No BL 278/2007 – with the title;<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;EDITH
AKUYE ADDY, ADELAIDE EDNA ADDY v AGNES ADOBEA JUMPAH &amp; 2 ORS.<o:p></o:p>Plaintiff
instituted this action to restrain the execution of this judgment on the
grounds that he was not a party to the said suit and consequently he was a
stranger against whom the said judgment was being injuriously and adversely
executed.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
defendants entered appearance to the suit and refuted the claims made by the
plaintiff herein and contended that the plaintiff has no capacity to commence
the instant action against them since the plaintiff is not a stranger to the
instant action but a tenant who traces his root of interest to a property for
the 4th defendant herein who was the 1st defendant in the
earlier suit which judgment is being executed.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;In
Paragraphs 7, 8 and 9 of his statement of claim, the plaintiff stated that he
obtained a tenancy agreement from one Godwin Cocu Klevor for a store in a
commercial property situate in H/No. C110/4 Kokomlemle Accra and the said
Godwin Cocu Klevor obtained his purported leasehold interest from one Agnes
Adobea Jumpah, who is the 4th defendant herein and the 1st
defendant in Suit No BL 278/2007.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;In
the judgment to the Suit No BL 278/2007, His Lordship Ofosu Quartey declared
the leasehold interest held in H/No. C110/4 Kokomlemle Accra, as unconscionable
at law and was consequently set aside. The said leasehold declared
unconscionable and set aside by the High Court is the same that forms the basis
for the purported grant of a lease by the 4th defendant herein to
the said Godwin Cocu Klevor and out of which the plaintiff herein claims to
hold a tenancy.<o:p></o:p>It
is this judgment that is being executed upon the issuance of a writ of
possession that caused the bailiffs of the High Court Accra to appear at H/No.
C110/4 Kokomlemle Accra and lock up the store of the plaintiff herein in
preparation for his eviction after his rejection of the invitation to attorn
tenancy to the 4th defendant herein.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
defendant applicant argued further that the plaintiff cannot bring this action
since he has no defence to the earlier action whose judgment affected him
injuriously and consequent upon which he brings this action to set it aside. It
is the applicant’s case that the plaintiff can only file a suit to set aside
the judgment if he has a defence to the claims of the plaintiff in the judgment
he seeks to set aside.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The
applicant submitted that the plaintiff cannot also contend that he is a
stranger to the earlier Suit No BL 278/2007, since he takes what his grantor
has, which grantor has lost her interest granted by the 4th
defendant.<o:p></o:p><spa</main>