TIESO GHANA LIMITED (PLAINTIFF) vs. EUROGET DE-INVEST SA (DEFENDANT) [2019]DLHC7148

Date	2019-06-22
Suit No.	SUIT NO: CM/RPC/00680/2017
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC7148

HIS LORDSHIP SAMUEL K. A. ASIEDU J

CECIL METTLE NUNOO ESQ. FOR G. A. MENSAH ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFF.

AMELIA ADJOTEY ESQ. FOR YAW ESHUN ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANT.

[2019]DLHC7148
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >TIESO GHANA LIMITED<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>EUROGET DE-INVEST SA<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[HIGH COURT (COMMERCIAL DIVISION), ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT
NO: CM/RPC/00680/2017&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: 22ND MARCH, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p>CECIL METTLE NUNOO ESQ.,
FOR G. A. MENSAH ESQ., FOR THE PLAINTIFF.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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AMELIA
ADJOTEY ESQ., FOR YAW ESHUN ESQ., FOR THE DEFENDANT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP SAMUEL K. A.
ASIEDU, J <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>By
a writ of summons issued on the 6th day of November 2017, the within
named plaintiff claims from the defendant:<o:p></o:p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Recovery of the sum of $163,016.70 owed by the
defendant to the plaintiff for work done on a guarantee letter dated 18th
May 2012.<o:p></o:p>b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Interest on the sum of $163,016.70 from 1st
October 2012 to the date of final payment<o:p></o:p>c.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Damages.<o:p></o:p>After
the close of pleadings and the inability of the parties to settle their
differences at pre-trial, issues were set down for trial at which each of the
parties gave evidence through its representative and closed their case.<o:p></o:p>The
court finds from the pleadings that it is not in dispute that the plaintiff was
engaged by the defendant to construct a hospital at Wa in the Upper West Region
of Ghana in 2012 as evidenced by a contract signed by the parties and exhibited
as exhibit D by the plaintiff herein. It is also not in dispute that before the
execution of exhibit D, the plaintiff had been engaged by Gruppo Gedi to do
some works in respect of the same Wa hospital project.<o:p></o:p>From
the pleadings and the evidence on record the court finds that the parties agree
that the defendant herein, initially, contracted Gruppo Gedi to construct the
Wa hospital on its behalf and that it was after the execution of the contract
between the defendant and Gruppo Gedi that Gruppo Gedi also sub-contracted the
plaintiff to do some works for and on behalf of Gruppo Gedi. <o:p></o:p>The
court also finds as a fact that the contract between the defendant and Gruppo
Gedi for the construction of a hospital at Wa was terminated after which the
said contract was awarded by the defendant to the plaintiff in the year 2012
leading to the execution of exhibit D.<o:p></o:p>The
case for the plaintiff is that when Gruppo Gedi contracted the plaintiff as a
sub-contractor to do some works for and on behalf of Gruppo Gedi, the
plaintiff, sensing that Gruppo Gedi may not be able to satisfy the financial
commitments embedded in the contract between it and Gruppo Gedi, asked for and
secured a guarantee from the defendant who readily gave exhibit A, which is the
same as exhibit 1 herein, that upon the completion of the works assigned by
Gruppo Gedi, the defendant guarantees that it will pay the invoice related
thereto and submitted by the plaintiff. This letter, marked exhibit A and
exhibit 1, is dated the 18th day of May 2012.<o:p></o:p>The
court finds and holds that the defendant admits the guarantee when it pleaded
in paragraph 5 of its amended statement of defence filed on the 21st
June 2018 that: <o:p></o:p>5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In further response to the said
purported agreement the Defendant undertook to pay the monies being claimed by
the Plaintiff by reason of some works undertaken in respect of the Wa Hospital
by the Plaintiff on behalf of Gruppo Gedi.<o:p></o:p>The
court also finds that from paragraph 7 of the amended</main>