THE REPUBLIC vs. ELIZABETH FRIMPONG (RESPONDENT) EXPARTE: ATTA DWAMENA SUBSTITUTED BY OBUOBI AUNTIE GRACE [2019]DLHC7648

THE REPUBLIC vs. ELIZABETH FRIMPONG (RESPONDENT) EXPARTE: ATTA DWAMENA SUBSTITUT... [2019]DLHC7648

Date	2019-03-29
Suit No.	SUIT NO. CR/710/18
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC7648

HER LADYSHIP OLIVIA OBENG OWUSU J.

CORNELIUS VITTO FOR APPLICANTS

WARD BREW FOR RESPONDENT

[2019]DLHC7648
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>ELIZABETH
FRIMPONG<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>EXPARTE: ATTA DWAMENA SUBSTITUTED BY OBUOBI AUNTIE GRACE<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT (GENERAL JURISDICTION COURT 4), 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. CR/710/18&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE:
29TH MARCH, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>CORNELIUS
VITTO FOR APPLICANTS <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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WARD
BREW FOR RESPONDENT <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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HER LADYSHIP OLIVIA OBENG
OWUSU, J.<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.5pt;
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RULING<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>By their
application before this Court the applicants are seeking an order to commit the
respondent for contempt. <o:p></o:p>The nub
of the applicants’ case has been captured in paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and
9 of the affidavit in support deposed to by the 2nd applicant.&nbsp;&nbsp; This will repay extensive quotation.&nbsp; I shall quote verbatim.<o:p></o:p>“1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That I am the deponent herein and 2nd
defendant in the Civil Suit No. A1/08/05 and I make this application on my own
behalf and on behalf of and with the consent of the other defendants.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That
2nd defendant/applicant was in Court throughout the Civil Suit No.
A1/08/05 which has gone through full trial and judgment delivered on the 14th
of August, 2014.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That
the case was appealed to the High Court by the plaintiff therein who lost the
appeal and was ordered to vacate the premises of the defendant/judgment
creditor.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That
while the appeal was pending in Court plaintiff not only constructed a fence
wall around defendants land but she also put up a school on the land.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That
subsequently defendant applied to the District Court for demolition of the
plaintiff’s illegal structures and to go into execution but the latter brought
a fresh Writ of Summons claiming fraud in the two judgments that were delivered
in connection with the suit.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That
this Writ of Summons was however struck out by the District Court as not
germane to the issue of execution which was the application filed by the
defendant/judgment creditor seeking demolition of illegal structures. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp; 8.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That
plaintiff/judgment debtor who has refused all orders of the trial Court and
High Court to which she appealed and having disregarded all the entries of
judgment served on her is still in complete contempt and defiance of Court
running the school built on the land of the defendant/judgment creditor.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp; 9.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The
conduct of the respondent is a willful contempt of both the District and High Courts
and we pray that she be attached for contempt of Court”.<o:p></o:p>Ann</main>