EXPAT HOMES LIMITED vs. TOTAL PETROLEUM (GH) LTD AND EXPAT HOMES LIMITED vs. HANNA PETROLEUM & TRAD. LTD [2019]DLHC10123

EXPAT HOMES LIMITED vs. TOTAL PETROLEUM (GH) LTD AND EXPAT HOMES LIMITED vs.... [2019]DLHC10123

Date	2019-02-28
Suit No.	SUIT NO. CM/OCC/0443/2017 SUIT NO. CM/OCC/0460/17
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC10123

JUSTICE GEORGE BUADI J.

DR. ERNEST OWUSU DAPAA FOR PLAINTIFF.

FRANK BOAKYE AGYEN FOR TOTAL PETROLEUM LIMITED (TPL).

HARUNA MAAMAH WITH MS ALICE ODAME KORANTENG FOR HANNA PETROLEUM & TRADING LIMITED (HPTL).

[2019]DLHC10123
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >EXPAT HOMES LIMITED<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>TOTAL PETROLEUM (GH) LTD<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>AND<o:p></o:p>EXPAT HOMES LIMITED<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>HANNA PETROLEUM &amp; TRAD. LTD<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT
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NO. CM/OCC/0443/2017 SUIT NO. CM/OCC/0460/17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DATE:28TH FEBRUARY 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>DR. ERNEST OWUSU
DAPAA FOR PLAINTIFF. <o:p></o:p>FRANK BOAKYE AGYEN
FOR TOTAL PETROLEUM LIMITED (TPL).<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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MAAMAH, WITH MS. ALICE ODAME KORANTENG FOR HANNA PETROLEUM &amp; TRADING
LIMITED (HPTL).<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>JUSTICE GEORGE
BUADI J.<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

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</div>&nbsp;1.0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Background<o:p></o:p>1.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Facts in this consolidated suit are wide
and extensive, indeed contrasting; culminating in like manner the setting down
of varied issues by the pretrial court, My view however is that, the main
issue, indeed the principle of law at the heart of the contestation involves
and indeed revolves largely around the primary issue of whether from facts of the
relationship between the parties, a valid contractual agency relationship exists
that the court can enforce.<o:p></o:p>1.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This judgment relates to two suits that
within a space of one week in July 2017<a href="file:///C:/Users/aggie/Desktop/2020-21/Criminal/Judgt%20Expat%20Homes%20v%20Total%20Petrol%20&amp;amp;%20Anor%20(2021_01_25%2010_26_20%20UTC).docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a>,
plaintiff herein commenced separately against defendants herein; first against
Total Petroleum Limited (TPL)<a href="file:///C:/Users/aggie/Desktop/2020-21/Criminal/Judgt%20Expat%20Homes%20v%20Total%20Petrol%20&amp;amp;%20Anor%20(2021_01_25%2010_26_20%20UTC).docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title="">[2]</a>,
and second, against Hanna Petroleum &amp; Trading Limited (HPTL)<a href="file:///C:/Users/aggie/Desktop/2020-21/Criminal/Judgt%20Expat%20Homes%20v%20Total%20Petrol%20&amp;amp;%20Anor%20(2021_01_25%2010_26_20%20UTC).docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title="">[3]</a> for
reliefs relating to agency service agreement that plaintiff claims to have
executed separately with each defendant. Plaintiff seeks largely declaratory
orders to confirm its belief that it has agency agreement with each defendant, and
that each had breached the said agreement.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;2.0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Plaintiff’s
case against defendants <o:p></o:p>2.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The facts that underlie each of the two separate
suits are not dissimilar; they are related, flowing from the same transaction. The
brief facts are that plaintiff is a real estate agency. It claims to have separately
entered agency agreement with each of defendant for the sale/purchase of a
landed property - a fuel station located at the Heavy Industrial Area, Tema,
which it prays the court to enforce. On the basis of the agency agreement, plaintiff
seeks to recover from TPL 10% of the purchase price of the property as agency
commission, and from HPTL 1.5% commission of the listed price of the property,
which plaintiff claims was sold for USD $3,800.000.<a href="file:///C:/Users/aggie/Desktop/2020-21/Criminal/Judgt%20Expat%20Homes%20v%20Total%20Petrol%20&amp;amp;%20Anor%20(2021_01_25%2010_26_20%20UTC).docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title="">