THE REPUBLIC vs. D. V. KOFI AFEWU AND TERRY DARKO EX-PARTE: TAKORADI FLOUR MILLS LTD. AND MANTRAC CO LTD. [2018]DLCA5184

THE REPUBLIC vs. D. V. KOFI AFEWU AND TERRY DARKO EX-PARTE: TAKORADI FLOUR MILL... [2018]DLCA5184

Date	2018-01-16
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO: H1/25/17
Citation No.	[2018]DLCA5184

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

LAWRENCE L. MENSAH) J.A.

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

JOHNY ADEKU FOR THE 1ST RESPONDENT/APPELLANT

EMMANUEL BECKLEY FOR THE 2ND RESPONDENT/APPELLANT

ALFRED A. BOTA FOR THE APPLICANTS/RESPONDENTS.

[2018]DLCA5184
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>D. V. KOFI
AFEWU AND TERRY DARKO<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>EX-PARTE: TAKORADI FLOUR
MILLS LTD. AND MANTRAC CO LTD.<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANTS/RESPONDENTS)<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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NO: H1/25/17&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 JANUARY, 2018<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>JOHNY ADEKU FOR THE 1ST
RESPONDENT/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p>EMMANUEL BECKLEY FOR THE 2ND
RESPONDENT/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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ALFRED
A. BOTA FOR THE APPLICANTS/RESPONDENTS. <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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</div>A.
M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS), J.A<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
This is an
appeal from the judgment of His Lordship Justice Uuter Paul Dery, Justice of
the High Court, Sekondi dated 16th March, 2015 in which the Appellants
were convicted for Contempt of court.&nbsp;
The Application for the attachment/committal for Contempt of the Appellants
was filed on 31st December, 2014 before a differently constituted
court. The reasons given by the Applicants, per their Affidavit in Support and
accompanying Exhibits are that they the Applicants, sometime in May 2013 issued
a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim against the Electricity Company of
Ghana (ECG) claiming inter alia, a declaration that the intended route for the
construction of the 33KV overhead line from Kwame Nkrumah Circle to the Paa
Grant Circle is wrongful.<o:p></o:p>The Applicants
then applied for an Interlocutory Injunction to restrain the ECG in the
following terms:<o:p></o:p>An order of
the court to restrain “the defendant,
whether by itself, its agents, assigns, privies, servants etc howsoever from
routing the 33KV over-head lines between 10 - 25 meters from the plaintiff’s
boundary on plot No. I0, Cape Coast Road, Takoradi.&nbsp; “And for further order restraining the
defendant, whether by itself, its servants, agents, privies, assigns howsoever
from constructing an electric pylon within 10 - 25 meters radius of the
plaintiff’s plot No. 10 Cape Coast Road, Takoradi.” <o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The application
was opposed and at the end of the arguments f</main>