AGNES ASARE-KONADU vs. FIRST RATE MICRO FINANCE CO. LTD PANYIN BENYIMAH ARTHUR EMMANUEL AVEMEE [2019]DLCA8697

AGNES ASARE-KONADU vs. FIRST RATE MICRO FINANCE CO. LTD PANYIN BENYIMAH ARTHUR... [2019]DLCA8697

Date	2019-06-13
Suit No.	SUIT NO. H1/220/2018
Citation No.	[2019]DLCA8697

HONYENUGA JA (PRESIDING)

LOVELACE -JOHNSON (MS) JA

POKU-ACHEAMPONG JA

HAROLD ATUGUBA FOR PLAINTIFF / APPELLANT

HAMZA ALHASSAN FOR 2ND & 3RD DEFENDENTS / RESPONDENTS

[2019]DLCA8697
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >AGNES ASARE-KONADU<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr>(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
 mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
 color:#00B0F0;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">vs.<o:p></o:p>FIRST RATE MICRO FINANCE CO. LTD<o:p></o:p>(1ST
 DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>PANYIN BENYIMAH ARTHUR<o:p></o:p>(2ND
 DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>EMMANUEL AVEMEE<o:p></o:p>(3RD
 DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL,
 ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
 padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">
 SUIT NO. H1/220/2018&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 13TH JUNE, 2019<o:p></o:p>
 </div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>HAROLD ATUGUBA FOR PLAINTIFF / APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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 HAMZA ALHASSAN FOR
 2ND &amp; 3RD DEFENDENTS / RESPONDENTS<o:p></o:p>
 </div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
 line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
 &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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 HONYENUGA JA
 (PRESIDING), LOVELACE -JOHNSON (MS) JA, POKU-ACHEAMPONG JA<o:p></o:p>
 </div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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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 <p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:
 .0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:
 none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
 solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>
 </div>POKU- ACHEAMPONG, JA<o:p></o:p>This
is an appeal on the adequacy of damages awarded the successful Plaintiff who
was knocked down by a vehicle driven by the Defendant who the Trial Judge had
adjudged to be negligent in operating his vehicle.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>FACTS OF THE CASE <o:p></o:p>The
Plaintiff /Appellant then a 24 year old unemployed university graduate resident
at Sakaman, Dansoman was on 13th September 2014 knocked down by a
vehicle driven by the 3rd Defendant while walking with her sister on
the pedestrian walk way at the “Transformer” section of Banana Inn station, Abolo
Junction, Dansoman.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
vehicle a Nissan Versa Saloon Car with registration number GX 4175 -14 veered
off the road and crashed into the Plaintiff/Appellant leaving her unconscious.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
Plaintiff/Appellant was admitted at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital with a
fractured left thigh bone, fractured right jaw bone, and loss of incisor teeth.<o:p></o:p>