YOUNG ENGINEERS LTD, YOUTH ENINEERING LTD vs STEPHEN ASANTE KENNEDY, ELVIS KWABENA ABOAGYE [2016]DLHC16303

YOUNG ENGINEERS LTD, YOUTH ENINEERING LTD vs STEPHEN ASANTE KENNEDY, ELVIS KWAB... [2016]DLHC16303

Date	2016-01-18
Suit No.	SUIT NO. BMISC 697/2015
Citation No.	[2016]DLHC16303

DZANE ASHALEY EMMANUEL

BISMARK DANKYI

KWAKU AGYEI GYAMFFOR

[2016]DLHC16303
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="_Hlk146980440"></a><a name="_Hlk146981432">YOUNG ENGINEERS LTD, YOUTH ENINEERING LTD<o:p></o:p></a>(PLAINTIFFS)<o:p></o:p>vs<o:p></o:p>STEPHEN
ASANTE KENNEDY, ELVIS KWABENA ABOAGYE<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">

SUIT NO. BMISC 697/2015&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 18TH&nbsp;&nbsp; JANAUARY, 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>DZANE ASHALEY EMMANUEL &nbsp;FOR PLAINTIFF
<o:p></o:p>BISMARK DANKYI &nbsp;FOR 1ST DEFENDANT <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: 0in 0in 1pt;">

KWAKU AGYEI GYAMFFOR FOR DEFENDANTS/APPLICANTS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM <o:p></o:p>HIS
LORDSHIP ANTHONY K. YEBOAH J<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0in;">

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</div>&nbsp;Before the Court is the Application
for Summary Judgment filed by the Defendant on 23rd July, 2015
seeking an order entering Summary Judgment “against the Plaintiffs.”<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;By a writ of summons
filed on 28th April 2015 the Plaintiffs sued the Defendant for an Order enforcing
the tenancy agreement made between the parties
and an order restraining the Defendant from interfering with the possession of the Plaintiffs of the premises the subject of the tenancy agreement.&nbsp; The
Defendant filed a statement of Defence on 6th May 2015 and
counterclaimed against the Plaintiff for the payment of the outstanding rent
assessed at GH₵48,000 for the tenancy period of two
years.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;It is the common ground of the parties
as far as the Pleadings go that at the time of the Suit, the Plaintiffs were
indebted to the Defendant in the sum of GH₵ 48,000.00. It is also agreed that the
Plaintiffs issued cheques for the payment of the rent but later stopped the
payment of the cheques. In paragraph
6 of the Reply to the Defence and Counterclaim, the Plaintiffs pleaded that they stopped
the cheques “since
they were extracted by duress. “I do not find in the averments
in the Statement of Claim any averments as to the duress.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Besides, albeit pleaded at the wrong
place thus denying the Defendants the opportunity to react to the plea of
duress in the Reply, I do not find
any particulars of duress in the Reply as is required by Order 11 Rule 12 of
the High Court (Civil) Procedure Rules, 2004 CI 14. The Plaintiffs ought to have sought the leave of the court to<spa</main>