KOFI ATAKORAH vs. SERWAH BONSU [2019]DLHC8985

Date	2019-04-18
Suit No.	SUIT NO. AC/528/2010
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC8985

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE EMMANUEL AMO YARTEY (J)

MRS. M.Y.N. ACHEAMPONG FOR THE PLAINTIFF

MR. KWAME ADOBOH FOR THE DEFENDANT

[2019]DLHC8985
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KOFI ATAKORAH<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>SERWAH BONSU<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[HIGH COURT (LAND DIVISION 7), 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. AC/528/2010&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:
18TH APRIL, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MRS. M.Y.N. ACHEAMPONG 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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MR.
KWAME ADOBOH FOR THE DEFENDANT<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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HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE EMMANUEL AMO YARTEY (J)<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:144.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:
justify;text-indent:-144.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:144.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:
justify;text-indent:-144.0pt;line-height:115%">At the
Application for Directions stage the Court set down the following issues for
determination:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:144.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:
justify;text-indent:-144.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Whether or not the
Defendant herein got the Plaintiff to guarantee two (2) containers costing
$6,600.00 and $4,500.00 in China in 2007 to ship her goods to Ghana to be paid
in Ghana to the wife of the Plaintiff in exchange for Bills of Lading on the shipment
for her to clear the same.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Whether or not
the Defendant used her “Prophetess” cloak she has dawned on herself to get the ignorant
wife of the Plaintiff under her control even to the extent of getting her to
believe that she was pregnant and that the pregnancy would be better protected
if she moved to live with her in her Madina house and got her to release the
Bills of Lading documents to her to clear her goods without paying for the cost
of the containers.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Whether or not
the part payment of $4,500.00 made to the Police at the Police Headquarters,
Accra in the absence of the Plaintiff is not an admission by the Defendant of
her liability to the claims of the Plaintiff.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>