EKOW ESSUMAN, BODJA ESSUMAN AND NANA ASARE BEDIAKO vs. ABOSO GOLDFIELDS LTD [2018]DLCA4698

Date	2018-07-27
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO.H1/22/2018
Citation No.	[2018]DLCA4698

IRENE C. LARBI (MRS) J.A. (PRESIDING)

LAWRENCE L. MENSAH) J.A.

A. M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) J.A.

DOE TSIKATA FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT

JOHN MERCER FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

[2018]DLCA4698
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >EKOW ESSUMAN, BODJA
ESSUMAN AND NANA ASARE BEDIAKO<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>ABOSO GOLDFIELDS LTD<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, CAPE COAST]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL
APPEAL NO.H1/22/2018&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: 27TH JULY,
2018<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>DOE TSIKATA FOR THE
DEFENDANT/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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JOHN
MERCER FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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IRENE
C. LARBI (MRS) J.A. (PRESIDING),
LAWRENCE L. MENSAH) J.A., A.
M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) J.A.<o:p></o:p>

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JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>A. M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS), J.A<o:p></o:p>1.
This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Sekondi dated 21st
June 2017.&nbsp; In the said judgment, the
learned High Court judge entered judgment for the plaintiff/respondent herein
on all the reliefs endorsed on his Writ of Summons save for relief III(a) which
will be particularised shortly. <o:p></o:p>2.
The background to this appeal is that, the parties entered into two separate
agreements by which the plaintiff/respondent was to provide haulage of tailing
services to the defendant/appellant.&nbsp; The
first agreement, marked Exhibit B is
dated 30th March 2015 and was to take effect on 1st
April, 2015 and expire on 31st December 2015. The second agreement
marked Exhibit B1, is dated 6th
July 2015 and was to take effect on 7th July 2015 and expire on 30th
December 2015.&nbsp; There was no serious
contention about the delivery of the first agreement but it is the operation of
the second agreement that landed parties at the High Court, Sekondi,
culminating in this appeal before this court.&nbsp;
The controversy with this second agreement is about payments due under
the agreement and the abrupt end of the agreement on 15th December
2015 that was expressly stated to expire on 30th December 2015.<o:p></o:p>3.
The plaintiff/respondent’s case is that from July 2015 to December 2015, at the
request of the defendant/appellant, he supplied the latter with truckloads of
tailings amounting in value to Gh<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Cambria Math&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Yu Gothic Medium&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Cambria Math&quot;">⊄2,582,000.00.&nbsp; He averred that the defendant/appellant paid
for the cost of the haulage with an outstanding balance of Gh<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Cambria Math&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Yu Gothic Medium&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Cambria Math&quot;">⊄220,000.00.&nbsp; He further averred that the
defendant/appellant however failed to pay even a pesewa for the cost of the
tailings despite several demands to that effect by the plaintiff/respondent,
including a written demand letter from his lawyers.&nbsp; It is the further case of the
plaintiff/respondent that the defendant/appellant further contracted him in or
about April 2015 to haul tailings from various concessions of the
defendant/appellant to its mine site at Damang which
the plaintiff/respondent executed from the said April 2015 to 15th
December 2015.<o:p></o:p>The
plaintiff/respondent averred that there were regular weekly meetings as regards
the performance of the contract and that at a weekly meeting held in the last
week of November 2015, the defendant/appellant represented or instructed the
plaintiff/respondent that it (the defendant/appellant) urgently needed an
increased supply of the tailings.<o:p></o:p>4.
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