KWASI APPIAH vs. UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA [2017]DLHC16415

Date	2017-08-16
Suit No.	SUIT NO. AB/6/2011
Citation No.	[2017]DLHC16415

HIS LORDSHIP K. A. GYIMAH

NANA AMA AMPONSAH FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

MARTIN KPEBU FOR WILLIAM FUGAR WITH TATA KOSI FOLIBA FOR DEFENDANT/APPLICANT

[2017]DLHC16415
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KWASI APPIAH&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA <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: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

SUIT NO. AB/6/2011&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:
16TH AUGUST 2017<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>NANA
AMA AMPONSAH FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT<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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RULING<o:p></o:p>

</div>Background<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;This court differently constituted
entered summary judgment in this case in favour of the plaintiff on 31st
May 2011 for the reliefs endorsed on the writ of summons which included
recovery of possession of the plaintiff’s property from the defendant.&nbsp; The court however set the reliefs for special
and general damages for trial.&nbsp; Trial was
duly conducted and final judgment was delivered on 12th October
2011.&nbsp; The court found as a fact that the
plaintiff could not prove its entitlement to the award of special damages but
the court awarded general damages which the court indexed at the sum equivalent
to the prevailing monthly rent on the property from expiration of the tenancy
on 28th November 2010 to 21st July 2011 inclusive of
interest and cost.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The plaintiff duly filed an entry of
judgment and proceeded to go into execution by instituting garnishee proceedings.&nbsp; The plaintiff obtained a garnishee order nisi
directed at the Bank of Ghana to show cause why any monies held for the benefit
of the defendant should not be used in satisfaction of the judgment debt.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Defendant’s
Application<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;On 12th December 2014, the
defendant filed a Motion on Notice to set aside the garnishee order nisi, the
garnishee proceedings and for stay of execution of the judgment pending the
determination of the application on the ground that the plaintiff had written a
letter to the defendant promising to waive the enforcement of the
judgment.&nbsp; This is because after the
plaintiff obtained judgment for the recovery of possession of the property from
the plaintiff, the parties later entered into negotiations which eventually led
to the defendant purchasing the said property from the plaintiff on 21st
July 2011.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The defendant alleges that as part of
negotiations leading to the purchase of the plaintiff’s property by the
defendant, the parties had agreed that the accrued rent would be taken as
forming part of the purchase price of the property.&nbsp; The defendant attached the said letter as
exhibit 2 to the application.&nbsp; It is the
defendant’s case that the said agreement to make the accrued rent a part of the
purchase price was a material term of the agreement between the parties leading
to the sale of the property and that since the plaintiff has been duly paid the
purchase price of the property he is not entitled to any more money.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Plaintiff’s
Response<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The plaintiff opposed the application
and stated that he had at no point written the said exhibit 2 and that the
signature on the said document is not his signature.&nbsp; The plaintiff further stated that the said
exhibit 2 is ‘a fabrication, self-serving and an afterthought manufactured to deceive
this honourable court’.&nbsp; The plaintiff
further asserted that he had at no point in time agreed with the applicant not
to pursue his claim or any judgment awarded in his favour.&nbsp; He further alleged that he is an illiterate
and he only managed to learn how to make a mark as a signature which signature
according to plaintiff is easy to forge.<o:p></o:p>