SUCCOTH LTD vs. F. G. DEVELOPERS LTD [2019]DLHC9156

Date	2019-01-11
Suit No.	SUIT NO. LD/1067/18
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC9156

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (MRS)

FRANK YIADOM FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

SAMIR FUSEINI FOR SAMUEL CUDJOE FOR

[2019]DLHC9156
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >SUCCOTH LTD<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>F. G. DEVELOPERS LTD<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT (LAND 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
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11TH JANUARY, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>FRANK YIADOM FOR
PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SAMIR
FUSEINI FOR SAMUEL CUDJOE FOR<o:p></o:p>

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HER
LADYSHIP JUSTICE BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (MRS)<o:p></o:p>

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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Before me is a motion on notice
invoking the inherent jurisdiction of this Court to strike out the writ of
summons and statement of claim on the grounds that the commencement of the
instant suit constitutes an abuse of the Court process.&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>In the accompanying affidavit in
support, the Defendant/Applicant essentially contended that the land, subject
matter of the instant suit, is the subject matter of a pending litigation
between the grantor of the Plaintiff/Respondent and the grantor of the Defendant/Applicant
in suit no FAL/76/11 entitled: Numo Samuel Kofi Lapleku v Tetteh Agbenyeke,
Granhill Company Ltd and Kwabena Lapleku. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In
the endorsement to the amended writ of summons in the said suit, the Plaintiff/
Respondent’s grantor, Numo Samuel Kofi Lapleku had challenged the authority of
the 1st and 3rd Defendant’s therein, to have alienated
the land in dispute to Granhill Company Ltd who is the 2nd Defendant
in the said suit and the grantor of the Defendant/Applicant in the instant
suit. He had also prayed for an order of recovery of possession and an order to
restrain the Defendants therein and their assigns from interfering with
Osabunya Family lands located at Old Ningo.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The Defendant/Applicant further
contended that the High Court had made an interim order in the said suit by
which it affirmed the Defendant/Applicant’s grantor’s right to possession and
use of the land in dispute based upon a land certificate held by the Defendant/Applicant’s
grantor. He further asserted that the Defendant/Applicant’s grantor had been
ordered to pay an amount of One Hundred Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢100,000.00)
into Court as an undertaking to abide the outcome of the said suit. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>He therefore prayed the Court to strike
out the instant suit as an abuse of the Court process as the issues therein
were not materially different from the issues to be determined in suit no FAL/76/11.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The Plaintiff Respondent filed an
affidavit in opposition to the application to strike out the instant suit. In
the said affidavit in opposition, he stated that the Defendant Applicant’s
grantor, Granhill Company Ltd, was incorporated in January 2016 and therefore
it was not in existence at the time it purported to acquire the land in dispute
from Tetteh Agbenyeke, the 1st Defendant in suit no FAL/76/11. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>He further argued that in view of the
fact that the Defendant/Applicant’s vendor was not in existence at the time
that suit no FAL/76/11 was filed, the interim orders made by the Court in its
favour were all void. Further, he contended </main>