OSEI ACHEAMPONG H/NO. PLOT 40, BLOCK KK ANWOMASO- KUMASI vs. GLOBAL ACESS LTD CITIZEN KOFI'S BUILDING OSU- ACCRA [2019]DLHC6882

OSEI ACHEAMPONG H/NO. PLOT 40, BLOCK KK ANWOMASO- KUMASI vs. GLOBAL ACESS LTD C... [2019]DLHC6882

Date	2019-05-13
Suit No.	SUIT NO. RPC 15/2015
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC6882

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE DR. RICHMOND OSEI-HWERE

KWABENA OPOKU MENSAH FOR PLAINTIFF

[2019]DLHC6882
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >OSEI ACHEAMPONG H/NO.
PLOT 40, BLOCK KK ANWOMASO- KUMASI<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>GLOBAL ACESS LTD CITIZEN
KOFI'S BUILDING OSU- ACCRA<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT, KUMASI]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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KWABENA OPOKU MENSAH FOR PLAINTIFF <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HIS
LORDSHIP JUSTICE DR. RICHMOND OSEI-HWERE<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>On
17th December, 2018, the plaintiff herein issued a writ of summons
against the defendant herein seeking the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Cash the sum of Ninety-Nine Thousand Three
Hundred and Twenty Ghana Cedis Thirty-Nine Pesewas (99,320.39) being money held
in the Plaintiff’s savings account with the defendant financial institution.<o:p></o:p>b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Interest on the sum of Ninety-Nine Thousand
Three Hundred and Twenty Ghana Cedis Thirty-Nine Pesewas (99,320.39) at the
prevailing bank rate from October, 2018 to the date of final payment.<o:p></o:p>c.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Cash the sum of One Hundred Thousand and
One Ghana Cedis(GHC100,001.00) being the fixed deposit investment held by the
defendant institution on behalf of the plaintiff and the interest attendant
thereto. <o:p></o:p>d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
General, special, exemplary and punitive
damages against the defendant institution for its failure to honour numerous
cheques the plaintiff drew on his account to enable him make payments to his
clients on a weekly basis because his legitimate expectation that the said
cheques would be honoured to enable him pay winnings of his clients was
thwarted though the plaintiff had sufficient funds in his account.<o:p></o:p>e.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Costs incurred by the plaintiff in his
self-sponsored trip to Accra to have a meeting with the executives of the
defendant institution at its headquarters in Osu which took three days but
yielded no positive result.<o:p></o:p>f.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Costs.<o:p></o:p>g.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SUCH FURTHER ORDER(S) as the Honor</main>