ADWOA AMOAH ASEMPA vs. GEORGE KOOMSON [2019]DLHC10179

Date	2019-12-03
Suit No.	SUIT NO.GJ/1368/2018
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC10179

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE ANANDA J. AIKINS (MRS).

[2019]DLHC10179
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ADWOA AMOAH ASEMPA<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>GEORGE KOOMSON<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT, ACCRA]<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;">

SUIT
NO.GJ/1368/2018&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; DATE: 3RDDECEMBER, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HER
LADYSHIP JUSTICE ANANDA J. AIKINS (MRS).<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;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%;
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solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">Ruling
on Motion on Notice for Stay of Execution and to set aside Summary Judgment
granted on 22nd August, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;This present application is a request
by the plaintiff/applicant for an order for stay of execution and to set aside the
summary judgment granted by the vacation judge on 22nd August, 2019.<o:p></o:p>The background to this application is
that the plaintiff/applicant (hereinafter called the plaintiff) sued the
defendant/respondent (hereinafter called the respondent) on the 31st
of May, 2019, for the following reliefs:-<o:p></o:p>a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Defendant
should comply with paragraph 20 of the contract.<o:p></o:p>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Extension
of time to six (6) months starting 1st June, 2019 for plaintiff to
pay the rest of the purchase price of the property.<o:p></o:p>c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Paragraphs
9, 10 and 17 of the contract should be expunged from the contract.<o:p></o:p>d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Perpetual
Injunction against the defendant, his assigns, privies, workmen heirs in title
and succession from entering, selling alienating or interfering in any way with
plaintiff’s property.<o:p></o:p>e)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Costs
including legal fees.<o:p></o:p>It would appear from the accompanying
statement of claim that the plaintiff entered into a contract with the
defendant to purchase a property with an uncompleted structure thereon at Dome,
Accra for valuable consideration. The plaintiff claims she made part payment
for the said property and took possession of same. She claims she later
realised that part of the written contract which she had signed were
unconscionable and against her wishes because she claims she is an illiterate
and that her lawyer did not explain the terms of the contract to her before she
appended her signature to same.<o:p></o:p>The plaintiff claimed the defendant had
threatened to sell the property to third parties because she had not been able
to complete payment hence her resort to the law Court to compel the defendant
to give her extension of time to complete payment and also to get parts of the
contract which she considered inimical to her interest to be expunged from the
terms of the contract.<o:p></o:p>The defendant filed his defence to the
plaintiff’s suit and also counter claimed for certain reliefs among which was
the request to the Court for the plaintiff to be ejected from the
property.&nbsp; This relief of the defendant’s
counter claim was granted by the vacation judge on the 22nd of August,
2019, when the defendant applied to the Court for an order of Summary Judgment
against the plaintiff.&nbsp; And it is the
execution of this order of summary judgment against the plaintiff which the
plaintiff is seeking to stay in this present application.&nbsp; It is also the plaintiff’s request that the
said order should also be set aside.<o:p></o:p>