EVANS QUARSHIE TEYE, JAMES AGALGA & 13 ORS vs WILLIAM KPORMATSI [2018]DLHC16391

Date	2018-03-21
Suit No.	SUIT NO. LD/1184/2016
Citation No.	[2018]DLHC16391

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE ANTHONY OPPONG

RAPHAEL ALIGINA ESQ

NANA EKUA AMOA-BOSOMPEM ESQ

JUSTIN TETE DONKOR

[2018]DLHC16391
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="_Hlk146980440"></a><a name="_Hlk146981432">EVANS QUARSHIE TEYE, </a>JAMES
AGALGA &amp; 13 ORS<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>WILLIAM
KPORMATSI <o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<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.
LD/1184/2016&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: 21ST
MARCH 2018<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>RAPHAEL ALIGINA ESQ., FOR PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS<o:p></o:p>NANA EKUA AMOA-BOSOMPEM ESQ., FOR DEFENDANT <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;">

JUSTIN TETE DONKOR FOR APPLICANT<o:p></o:p>

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</div>&nbsp;A clear cut procedure
as to how a stranger
may apply to set aside a
Judgment of the Court where the stranger
is injuriously or adversely affected
by the Judgment has been stated by the Courts in a number of cases
including: Gbago v. Owusu (1972)
2 GLR 252; Lamptey
v. Hammond (1987-88) GLR 327 and Wolley v. Nsiah (2003-2005) 1 GLR 69.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The Court of Appeal in the Wolley case held just as in the other cases that “the
established procedure by which a stranger to a previous action could acquire
capacity to seek to set aside a completed judgment in that action which had
injuriously or adversely affected him was either to obtain leave of the
Defendant in the suit to use his name and then apply to the court in that name to have the Judgment
set aside or he could take out summons(in
today’s dispensation a motion) in his own name but then he should serve the
summons on both the Plaintiff and the Defendant and ask for leave of the court
to set aside the judgment and to be allowed to defend the action on terms”<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;In
the instant application filed on 27th March 2018, one Elizabeth Lomoteley Petersen
is seeking to set aside the judgment
of this Court