VOLTIC GHANA LTD. vs. EMMANUEL ADAPOE [2017]DLHC9194

Date	2017-10-30
Suit No.	SUIT NO. CM/0325/16
Citation No.	[2017]DLHC9194

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE JENNIFER ABENA DADZIE

FRANK ASAMOAH (H/B FOR JUSTICE KUSI-MINKA PREMO) OF MINKAH PREMO & CO. ACCRA COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF

NO LEGAL REPRESENTATION ON BEHALF OF THE WITHIN-NAMED DEFENDANT

[2017]DLHC9194
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >VOLTIC
GHANA LTD.<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>EMMANUEL
ADAPOE<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">SUIT NO. CM/0325/16&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: 30TH OCTOBER, 2017<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p>FRANK ASAMOAH (H/B
FOR JUSTICE KUSI-MINKA PREMO) OF MINKAH PREMO &amp; CO. ACCRA, COUNSEL FOR
PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p>NO LEGAL
REPRESENTATION ON BEHALF OF THE WITHIN-NAMED DEFENDANT<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><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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HER
LADYSHIP JUSTICE JENNIFER ABENA DADZIE<o:p></o:p>

</div>JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The Plaintiff is a limited liability company
duly registered under the laws of the Republic of Ghana and is engaged in the
distribution of bottled water branded as Voltic Natural Mineral Water, Cool Pac
and soft drinks. The Defendant, a former employee of the Plaintiff was during
his employment responsible for distributing Plaintiff’s products to Plaintiff’s
customers and to account to the Plaintiff for the proceeds accruing from the
sale of the said products.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The Plaintiff claims against
the Defendant the following reliefs as endorsed on its writ of summons and the
accompanying statement of claim:<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “a)&nbsp;&nbsp; An order for the payment of the sum of One
Hundred and Nineteen Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty Two Ghana Cedis
(GH¢119,222.00) due and owing as at the 15th day of January, 2016.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;
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Interest
on the above sum from the 15th day of January, 2016 till date of
final payment.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;
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Cost
including Lawyers’ fees.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:36.0pt;
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Any
other remedy that the Court may deem fit.”<o:p></o:p>The material facts which gave rise to the
matter before me are stated in Plaintiff’s statement of claim, the Witness
Statement of its representative and supported by the documentary evidence
adduced by the Plaintiff in support of its case.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>It is the claim of the Plaintiff that during
a reconciliation exercise into the accounts rendered by the Defendant in
respect of products of the Plaintiff which he had distributed to its customers
sometime in January 2016, a shortfall was discovered in those accounts, which
Defendant admitted to and promised to make good.&nbsp; Having failed so to do, the Plaintiff alleges
that it has instituted in the Circuit Court sitting at Amasaman a cr</main>