FORBES MICROFINANCE LIMITED vs. HARA BEMPA MENSAH [2017]DLHC11914

Date	2017-07-05
Suit No.	SUIT NO. AP153/2014
Citation No.	[2017]DLHC11914

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE PATIENCE-MILLS TETTEH

EVA OKYERE WITH BENJAMIN TAKYI ANTIEDU FOR DEFENDANT

[2017]DLHC11914
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >FORBES
MICROFINANCE LIMITED <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>HARA
BEMPA MENSAH <o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<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;">

</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;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">EVA OKYERE WITH
BENJAMIN TAKYI ANTIEDU FOR DEFENDANT<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: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

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

</div>On
the 20th of March the plaintiff filed a writ of summons at the High
Court Registry against the defendant with the following reliefs;<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:99%">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Payment of sum of seven
hundred and seventy six thousand, eight hundred and ninety one Ghana cedis and
seventeen pesewas (776,891.17) being the outstanding debit balance as at 3rd
March 2014 on account of the loan facilities granted the defendants by the plaintiff
which remains due, owing and payable.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:99%">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Interest on the said sum at
the current commercial lending rate from 3rd March 2014, to the date
of final payment.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:99%">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Damages for fraud<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:99%">4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Payment of legal costs on a
full indemnity bases or such other basis as may be assessed by the court.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;letter-spacing:-.05pt;mso-font-width:99%">5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
And or an order for the
judicial sale of property described as follows; situate and lying at Feo Oyo
Kaneshie, Accra, subject matter of the legal mortgage made on the 3rd
of May 2011 between plaintiff and the defendant and stamped as LVD 23831/2013<o:p></o:p>By
consent judgment the parties have agreed as follows;<o:p></o:p>On
19th of May 2017 the Judgment debtor paid and the judgment creditor
received the sum of three hundred thousand Ghana cedis (300,000) only as full
payment of the settlement of the amount.<o:p></o:p>That
the payment of the full three hundred Ghana cedis (GHC 300,00) shall be full
and final settlement of the aforementioned law suit, and the judgment-creditors
right to levy execution has been extinguished with the said payment.<o:p></o:p>Further
and in furtherance of the above agr</main>