STEPHEN BILLY ADOM vs. WILLIAM APPIAH [2019]DLCA8765

Date	2019-05-28
Suit No.	CIVIL APPE AL: H1/32/2018
Citation No.	[2019]DLCA8765

F. G. KORBIEH JA (PRESIDING)

M. M. AGYEMANG (MRS.) JA

M. A. WOOD (MRS.) JA

GEORGE AHADZI FOR RESPONDENT / APPELLANT

[2019]DLCA8765
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >STEPHEN BILLY ADOM<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>WILLIAM APPIAH<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[COURT
 OF APPEAL, KOFORIDUA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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 CIVIL APPE AL: H1/32/2018&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;DATE: 28TH &nbsp;MAY , 2019<o:p></o:p>
 </div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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 GEORGE AHADZI FOR
 RESPONDENT / APPELLANT<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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 F. G. KORBIEH JA
 (PRESIDING), M. M. AGYEMANG (MRS.) JA, M. A. WOOD (MRS.) 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="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:
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 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><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>AGYEMANG JA:<o:p></o:p>In this
appeal the plaintiff/appellant (hereafter alternately referred to as the
plaintiff, or the appellant), seeks a setting aside of the judgment of the High
Court, Nsawam, delivered on the 22nd day of December 2016, and the grant of the
reliefs sought by the plaintiff.<o:p></o:p>This is an uncommon
commercial transaction for the sale of land, gone awry. The facts of the matter
are that the plaintiff, the owner of a Ford F150 had an oral agreement with the
defendant for the sale to the plaintiff, &nbsp;land at a place called Wangara, Nsawam,
belonging to the defendant. The consideration for this transaction was the
transfer to the defendant of the Ford F150 vehicle said to belong to the
plaintiff.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>This is how
the transaction came about: the plaintiff took the said Ford F150 vehicle took
it to a mechanic close to the Nsawam-Accra road for the repair of a faulty
engine. The defendant a land surveyor, approached him, and offered to purchase
the said vehicle which he had seen at the mechanic’s, in exchange for a parcel
of land. <o:p></o:p>The terms of
the contract (which remained oral at all material times), are not certain, for
while the plaintiff contends that he was offered two acres of land to purchase,
the defendant avers that it was in fact one acre of land the parties agreed
upon. <o:p></o:p>Pursuant to
the agreement, the plaintiff sent someone to go with the defendant to inspect
the lie of the land. When that person (who gave evidence as PW1) returned to
say that that the land was suitable for building and for farming, the plaintiff
later went with the defendant and one another: the driver of a payloader truck,
to grade the land. According to the plaintiff, he could not stay for the
grading to be done, although he left the payloader driver in charge for the
purpose. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p</main>