WALLACE AGBI GBEDEMAH vs. PHYLLIS LOMOTELLE ENGMAN. [2016]DLHC3521

Date	2016-02-22
Suit No.	SUIT NO.MISC/0010/2016
Citation No.	[2016]DLHC3521

HIS LORDSHIP ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT

[2016]DLHC3521
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="OLE_LINK1">WALLACE
AGBI GBEDEMAH<o:p></o:p></a>vs.<o:p></o:p>PHYLLIS LOMOTELLE ENGMAN. <o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT (COMMERCIAL DIVISION), ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT
NO.MISC/0010/2016&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; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;DATE: 22ND FEBRUARY, 2016 <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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HIS LORDSHIP ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR JUSTICE
OF THE HIGH COURT<o:p></o:p>

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RULING<o:p></o:p>

</div>This is the ruling of the court in respect of the
preliminary points of law raised by the counsel for Respondent when this
application came to be moved by the counsel for the Applicant. The Applicant who
roots this application under the Incorporated Private Partnership Act, Act 152,
1962 and seeks an order to the effect that the Respondent ceased to be a
partner in the firm Blue Bells Pre-School International on the following
grounds that:<o:p></o:p><span 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;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That Respondent since July, 2000 when the partnership
was formed has willfully and persistently failed or refused to pay her capital
contribution in breach of the partnership.<o:p></o:p><span 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;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That the respondent forfeited her interest in the partnership
when she willfully and persistently refused to pay up her capital contribution
when she was called upon by the Applicant to pay up.<o:p></o:p><span 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;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That Respondent cease to be a partner of the firm.<o:p></o:p>In an affidavit that accompanied the application
deposed to by the lawful attorney of the Applicant, Stephanie Haizel, Applicant
claim that per the partnership agreement the fixed capital of the partnership
was Gh¢10.000 which the Applicant was liable to pay Gh¢7.000.00 and the
Respondent Gh¢3.000.00. That the Respondent has not made good the payment of
her portion of fixed capital for the business, notwithstanding letters and
notices served her to pay her portion of the fixed capital. To the Applicant as
long as the Respondent has not paid her portion of the fixed capital she is
incapable of claiming a 30% share of interest in the partnership.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Respondent has resisted the application on two
preliminary points of law. The first is aptly captured by the Respondent in
paragraphs 6 and 7 of her affidavit in opposition to the application which
reads:<o:p></o:p>6.“That Blue Bells Pre-School International is already the subject matter
of an ongoing dispute between the Applicant as Petitioner and myself as Respondent
in Divorce and Matrimonial suit No BDMC 136/2013 entitled Brigadier General
Wallace Gbedemah and Phyllis Lomotelle Gbedemah pending before the High Court
of Justice” <o:p></o:p>7.&nbsp; That in the Suit No BDMC
136/2013 aforementioned I sought as one of the reliefs in my cross partition a
declaration of joint ownership of Blue Bells Pre school International, an order
of valuation of the entire business together with the assets and for my share
thereof to be paid to me accordingly”. <o:p></o:p>Respondent further claims that the present application
is only an attempt to scuttle an ongoing valuation exercise that has been
ordered by the Divorce and Matrimonial Division of the High court.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The second preliminary objection is to be found in
paragraph 12 of the affidavit in opposition and reads as follows:<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “that I am
again advised by counsel and verily believe same to</main>