MANSUA MANTE vs. ELLEBAL LTD [2018]DLHC3491

Date	2018-05-16
Suit No.	SUIT NO.BMISC 955/2009
Citation No.	[2018]DLHC3491

HIS LORDSHIP ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT

[2018]DLHC3491
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="OLE_LINK1">MANSUA MANTE<o:p></o:p></a>vs.<o:p></o:p>ELLEBAL 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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SUIT
NO.BMISC 955/2009&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;DATE: 16TH MAY, 2018<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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GEORGE ESHUN FOR
APPLICANTS PRESENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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HIS LORDSHIP ERIC KYEI BAFFOUR JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT<o:p></o:p>

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RULING<o:p></o:p>

</div>There
is an existing judgment delivered by G. N. Minta, Esq., Circuit Judge on the 4th
day of October, 2004 over the res litiga being H/No D769/4. Okaishie. The
judgment was as a result of a writ issued by the Defendant herein against Mante
Saakwa Mante and Anor, in Suit No CCL 85/98 issued 20th May, 1998 a
consolidated suit wherein the Defendant herein claimed the following endorsement
on its writ as follows:<o:p></o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2">Declaration of title of all that property known
 as H/No D769/4 Okaishie, Accra.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="2" type="1">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2">An order for ejectment from and recovery of
 possession of the two door store rooms occupied by Defendant in the said
 H/No D769, Okaishie, Accra.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="3" type="1">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2">An order for payment of mesne profit<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol> 
In the judgment referred to supra the learned Circuit Judge gave judgment in
favour of the Defendant herein and decreed for the defendants to vacate H/No
D769/4 Okaishie on or before January, 2005 and yield up vacant possession and
an order made for the rent officer of the Rent Court to assess the rent to be
paid. Appeal was subsequently filed and abandoned. No vacant possession had
since been yielded and neither has rent been paid. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>This has been mainly due to the writ issued by Plaintiff
in 2009 claiming the following reliefs endorsed on its amended writ issued
against the defendant:<o:p></o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;">A declaration
 that the judgment entered against the 2nd Defendant in Suit No
 CCL 85/98 (coram: G. N. Minte) at the Circuit Court, Accra is null and
 void by person [sic] that at the date of the issue of the writ of summons
 against the 2nd Defendant he had long died in 1975.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="2" type="a">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;">A further
 declaration that the Deed of Conveyance by which Ellebal Ltd claimed title
 to the property in dispute in Suit No CCL. 85/98, namely a two door store
 in H/No D769/4, Okaishie, Accra was tainted with fraud hence the judgment
 founded by its reliance on same is null and void<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;">Further or
 other in respect of the said property as in circumstances may be fair and
 equitable including an order of perpetual injunction restraining the
 Defendant its servants, agents, privies whomsoever or otherwise howsoever
 from holding itself as the owner of H/No D769/4, Okaishie, Accra<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;">Any further or
 others as the honourable court [sic].<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;">Costs <o:p></o:p></li>
</ol>Defendant has not only resisted the claim
of the Plaintiff but has counter claimed for the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:
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