KWABENA BOATENG vs. MELBOND MICROFINANCE COMPANY LTD. [2018]DLHC3342

Date	2018-05-18
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO.CM/0772/2016
Citation No.	[2018]DLHC3342

SAMUEL K. A. ASIEDU JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT

ISAAC AKWANTE ESQ. FOR ANTWI ABUAKWA ESQ. FOR PLAINTIFF PRESENT.

JOHN DAVID MERSON ESQ. FOR DEFENDANT.

[2018]DLHC3342
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KWABENA BOATENG<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MELBOND MICROFINANCE
COMPANY LTD.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[HIGH COURT (COMMERCIAL
DIVISION), ACCRA]<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.CM/0772/2016&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; &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: 18TH
MAY, 2018<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>ISAAC AKWANTE ESQ., FOR
ANTWI ABUAKWA ESQ., FOR PLAINTIFF PRESENT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>By
a writ of summons issued on the 11th November 2016, the plaintiff
claims against the defendant company.<o:p></o:p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order declaring that the act of the defendant in
locking out plaintiff and ransacking his shop and carrying away his merchandise
without any court order is unlawful and an affront to Plaintiff’s right to due
process.<o:p></o:p>b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A declaration that the unilateral takeover of
Plaintiff’s houses without recourse to the courts is unlawful, void and of no effect.<o:p></o:p>c.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order directed against the defendants to pay for
the merchandise they carried from plaintiff shop and had kept all this while.<o:p></o:p>d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order directed against the defendant to pay for
the sales of the one week that defendants locked out plaintiff and prevented
him from working.<o:p></o:p>e.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order declaring defendant’s acts as a breach of
contract and compensation for the breach.<o:p></o:p>f.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Any other relief
the court deem fit.<o:p></o:p>After
the service of the writ and the accompanying statement of claim on the
defendant and after the filing of appearance and a statement of defence by the
defendant, the matter was set down for pre-trial settlement but when the
parties could not settle at pre-trial, issues were set down and the case
referred to trial.<o:p></o:p>From
the pleadings filed by the parties the court finds that it is not in dispute
that the plaintiff is a businessman and operates a store at Zongo Lane in Accra
where h</main>