[2017]DLHC17424 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:29.0pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">DUKES PERTOLEUM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:29.0pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:29.0pt;text-align:center; tab-stops:center 238.75pt 244.25pt left 271.5pt 290.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:29.0pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">PATRICK OWUSU<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:29.0pt;text-align:center; tab-stops:center 236.25pt left 299.25pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:29.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:29.0pt;text-align:center; tab-stops:168.75pt 278.15pt 305.25pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> </span></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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 29pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO. RPC/293/2014 DATE: 16<sup>TH</sup> FEBRUARY, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:29.0pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops: 96.25pt center 244.25pt left 267.0pt 318.75pt 415.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">COUNSEL <o:p></o:p></span></b></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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 29pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">BERNARD AGBENYEGA HAVOR FOR PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:29.0pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops: 143.25pt 171.75pt 288.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">CORAM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:29.0pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR<o:p></o:p></span></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; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 29pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; 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"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> JUDGMENT <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:29.0pt;line-height:115%;tab-stops: 468.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">In<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>writ<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>issued<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>27<sup>th</sup><span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:1.9pt"> </span>August,<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>2014<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>plaintiff<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>claims<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>following<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>reliefs against the defendant:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:29.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height: 115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:468.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">i.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>payment<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>cash<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>sum<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>of GH¢36,000.00<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>being<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>purchase<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">price</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:29.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%;tab-stops:468.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">of 50,000 litre capacity LP Gas Tank purchased in 2010 from Douglas Adjetey Adjei operating under the name and style of TIME OF LIFE ENTERPRISE introduced to the Plaintiff by the Defendant and which Gas Tank<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>entrusted<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>Defendant<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>service<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>refurbish.<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>The<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Defendant has repaired and serviced the said Gas Tank and sold same to a third party without the knowledge, consent and authority of the Plaintiff.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:29.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height: 115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:14.2pt 61.6pt 468.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">ii.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Interest on the said amount of GH¢36,000.00 from 1<sup>st</sup> June, 2010 at the current Bank rate to the date of final payment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:29.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:54.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height: 115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:14.2pt 61.6pt 468.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">iii.<span style="font-vari