YESTERDAY GLORY COMPANY LTD vs. SIDALCO LIMITED [2017]DLCA4882

Date	2017-03-09
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL: H1/126/2016
Citation No.	[2017]DLCA4882

V. D. OFOE JA (PRESIDING)

I. C. LARBI (MRS.) JA

M. M. AGYEMANG (MRS.) JA

OPOKU AMPONSAH FOR PLAINTIFF / APPELLANT

KWAKU BRAM-LARBI FOR DEFENDANT /RESPONDENT

[2017]DLCA4882
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >YESTERDAY GLORY COMPANY LTD<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>SIDALCO LIMITED<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
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CIVIL
APPEAL: H1/126/2016&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;DATE:
9TH MARCH, 2017<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>OPOKU AMPONSAH
FOR PLAINTIFF / APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>V. D. OFOE JA (PRESIDING), I. C. LARBI (MRS.) JA, M. M. AGYEMANG (MRS.)
JA<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>AGYEMANG JA:<o:p></o:p>In this appeal against the judgment of the High
Court delivered on the 6th of May 2015, the appellant seeks the
following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order setting
aside the judgment of the trial High Court…<o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An order
directing the defendant/respondent to pay the Cedi equivalent of Euros 318,000.00
as of date(less the initial payment less the initial payment of GHC 801, 360.00
to the plaintiff/applicant) in settlement of the cost of the machinery and
equipment purchased from the plaintiff/appellant in the year 2012.<o:p></o:p>The matters that have given rise to the present
appeal are sufficiently simple: <o:p></o:p>It is common cause that the parties entered into a
contract sometime in October 2012 for the plaintiff/appellant (hereafter
referred to alternately as the plaintiff or the appellant), to supply two (2)
DAF Tipper Trucks and one (1) CAT Roller to the defendant/respondent (hereafter
referred to alternately as the defendant or the respondent). <o:p></o:p>The plaintiff supplied the items contracted for and
then sent two invoices to the defendant for the payment of the purchase price.
One invoice (exhibit A), was in the sum of Euros 318,000.00, and the other
(exhibit A1), said to be the equivalent of the said sum, was quoted in Ghana
Cedis: the sum of GHC801,366.00. In the words of the Managing Director of the
plaintiff, although the plaintiff purchased the items in Euros, she issued an
Euro invoice, and then its Ghana Cedi equivalent invoice, so the customer would
choose to pay what he/she preferred.<o:p></o:p>After a week of presenting the two invoices, the
plaintiff made inquiry per its Managing Director, and was told by the defendant’s
Managing Director that one Mr. Amoabeng would settle the bill. When after a
while nothing was paid by the said gentlemen, the plaintiff reached out to the
defendant again and learnt of the demise of its Managing Director. <o:p></o:p>In the period following the death, and because the
defendant had neglected to settle its indebtedness, the plaintiff wrote to the
defendant indicating its decision to repossess the items supplied. The
defendant’s new Managing Director in a letter exhibit B, asked for about six
weeks to settle the bill for the items the subject of this suit although she
indicated her willingness to permit the repossessing of some other items. In
spite of this promise no monies were paid to the plaintiff. Thus did the
plaintiff commence an action at the court below seeking inter alia, a payment
of the sum of Euros 318,000.00 as well as interest on same. <o:p></o:p>The defendant rushed to the plaintiff and settled
the amount contained in the Cedi invoice exhibit A1: the sum of GHC 801,366.00,
as well as the bill for registering the items, a total of GHC 803,760.00. The
defendant then entered appearance to the suit and filed its pleading in which
it alleged that it had settled its indebtedness. The plaintiff in its Reply,
indicated that the said sum of Euros 801,366.00 represented a only part-payment
of wha</main>