KWABENA BOATENG (PLAINTIFF) vs. MELBOND MICROFINANCE COMPANY LTD. (DEFENDANTS) [2018]DLHC7331

Date	2018-05-11
Suit No.	SUIT NO: CM/OCC/0772/16
Citation No.	[2018]DLHC7331

HIS LORDSHIP SAMUEL K. A. ASIEDU J.

[2018]DLHC7331
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KWABENA BOATENG<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MELBOND MICROFINANCE
COMPANY LTD.<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p>[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: CM/OCC/0772/16&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE:
11TH MAY, 2018<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP SAMUEL K. A.
ASIEDU, J.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>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 he deals in musical instruments. It is also not in dispute that the
defendant is a company incorporated under the laws of Ghana and operates as a
non-bank financial institution.<o:p></o:p>Again,
from the evidence adduced before the court, the parties do not dispute that in
December 2014, the defendant advanced the sum of GH₵30,000.00 to the plaintiff as a loan to expire at
the end of six months as evidenced by exhibit 1 tendered by the defendant company
herein. There is also pleading and evidence to the effect that the plaintiff
also took another loan of GH