MADAM MARGARET OWUSU-ANSAH vs. MR. LOUIS BENTIL, FRANK OPOKU BREFO AND KWASI OSEI [2019]DLHC8924

MADAM MARGARET OWUSU-ANSAH vs. MR. LOUIS BENTIL, FRANK OPOKU BREFO AND KWASI OS... [2019]DLHC8924

Date	2019-03-05
Suit No.	SUIT NO. FAL 61//2015
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC8924

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE E. K. BOSOMPEM APENKWAH J.

EMMANUEL BRIGHT ATOKOH WITH HIM IS FRANCES OFFIN FOR RESPONDENT

CHARLES BENTUM FOR APPLICANT

PAA JOY AKUMOAH BOATENG HOLDING BRIEF FOR CHARLES BENTUM FOR

THE DEFENDANT/JUDGMENT DEBTOR/APPLICANT

[2019]DLHC8924
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >MADAM MARGARET OWUSU-ANSAH<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/JUDGMENT/
CREDITOR/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MR. LOUIS BENTIL, FRANK
OPOKU BREFO AND KWASI OSEI<o:p></o:p>(1ST DEFENDANT/APPELLENT/ APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[HIGH COURT (LAND DIVISION 5), 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. FAL 61//2015&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:
5TH MARCH, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>EMMANUEL BRIGHT ATOKOH WITH
HIM IS FRANCES OFFIN FOR RESPONDENT <o:p></o:p>CHARLES BENTUM FOR APPLICANT
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PAA
JOY AKUMOAH BOATENG HOLDING BRIEF FOR CHARLES BENTUM FOR THE DEFENDANT/JUDGMENT
DEBTOR/APPLICANT <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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BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE E. K. BOSOMPEM APENKWAH J.<o:p></o:p>

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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The Plaintiff/Judgment/Creditor/Respondent
issued a writ of summons accompanied with a statement of claim on the 22nd
day of October, 2014 against the three Defendants.&nbsp; The Plaintiff obtained judgment against the
Defendants on the 12th day of July 2017. The 1st
Defendant applied to this court to set aside an order for substituted service
dated 3rd July 2014 and the judgment of the Court dated 12th July
2017.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>This application was dismissed by the court
on the 21st day of November, 2018.&nbsp;
Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the ruling of the Court dated 21st
day of November, 2018 the 1st Defendant/Judgment Debtor has appealed
against same to the Court of appeal. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In the instant application, the 1st
Defendant/Applicant has applied to this court by a motion to stay execution of
the ruling pending the determination of the appeal he has filed in the Court of
Appeal.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>However when served&nbsp; with&nbsp;&nbsp;
the notice of the motion for stay of execution the Plaintiff /Judgment
Creditor has filed an affidavit in opposition and&nbsp; indicated at paragraph (7) thereof&nbsp; that her Counsel/Lawyer would raise a
preliminary legal objection &nbsp;to the propriety
and competency&nbsp; of the application.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Counsel for Plaintiff at the hearing of
the application argued the legal objection as follows:<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>He told the court that the Notice of
Appeal was filed on the 24th day of January 2019 and the motion for
stay of execution was filed on 31st day of January 2019. He again
told the court that the ruling the Applicant sought to appeal against was
delivered on the 21st day of November, 2018. &nbsp;He concluded from the foregoing that the
appeal had been brought more than twenty one days after the ruling of this court
was delivered. Counsel contended that under rule 9 of the Court of Appeal Rules
(C1 19) the appeal ought to have been filed within twenty-one days and since it
had been filed outside the twenty-one days allowed by the Court of Appeal Rules
the appeal is incompetent and therefore there was&nbsp;&nbsp; no appeal pending before the Court of Appeal
and following from that nothing&nbsp;&nbsp; to be
stayed pending appeal.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>