GLORIE OSAFO AGYEMANG-DUAH AND OSEI AGYEMANG-DUAH VS WATCH & DINE LIMITED & 4 OTHERS [2020]DLCA9860

GLORIE OSAFO AGYEMANG-DUAH AND OSEI AGYEMANG-DUAH VS WATCH & DINE LIMITED & 4 OT... [2020]DLCA9860

Date	2020-10-29
Suit No.
Citation No.	[2020]DLCA9860

ANGELINA M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) J A (PRESIDING)

ALEX B. POKU-ACHEAMPONG J A

SAMUEL K. A. ASIEDU J A

KWASI AFRIFA FOR THE PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS

NANA KWASI BOAITEY FOR THE 2ND DEFENDANT/APPELLANT

[2020]DLCA9860
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="_Hlk35510717">GLORIE OSAFO AGYEMANG-DUAH AND OSEI AGYEMANG-DUAH&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </a> <o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS/
RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>WATCH &amp; DINE LIMITED ( KUMASI CITY MALL) KSI<o:p></o:p>(1ST
DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>KWABENA
OBENG, BAATSONA, ACCRA<o:p></o:p>(2ND
DEFT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>NANA
OBENG BRENTUO, BAATSONA, ACCRA<o:p></o:p>(3RD
DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>AKOSUA ADUTWUMWAA OBENG, DOMEABRA, ASANTE AKIM<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(4TH DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>STEPHEN
KOFI OPOKU, KUMASI<o:p></o:p>(5TH
DEFENDANT)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">

CIVIL APPEAL NO. H1/48/2020&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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
OCTOBER, 2020<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>KWASI AFRIFA FOR THE
PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">

NANA KWASI BOAITEY FOR THE 2ND
DEFENDANT/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>ANGELINA M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) J A
(PRESIDING), ALEX B. POKU-ACHEAMPONG, J A, SAMUEL K. A. ASIEDU, J A<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0in;">

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</div>DOMAKYAAREH
(MRS) JA:<o:p></o:p>[1]
This is an interlocutory appeal against two Rulings
emanating from the High Court (Commercial Division) Kumasi essentially in
respect of a corporate dispute between the Minority Shareholders who are the
Plaintiffs/Respondents herein and the Majority Shareholder who is the 2nd
Defendant/Appellant herein over control of a Company which is the 1st
Defendant herein. The said Rulings are dated 14th May, 2019 and 20th
May, 2019 respectively. For the purposes of this judgment, the facts as stated
by the respective parties are not all that important or relevant as same are
mere repetitions of their respective cases as narrated in the Statement of
Claim by the Respondents and the Statement of Defence and Counterclaim by the
Defendants and the 2nd Defendant/Appellant, herein after called the
Appellant. The “facts” therefore remain as mere allegations as none is yet to
be proved by the adduction of cogent evidence. Suffice it to say however, that
the Plaintiffs/Respondents accused the Defendants and the 2nd
Defendant/Appellant jointly and severally of committing fraud against them in
that even though they the Plaintiffs/Respondents and the 2nd
Defendant/Appellant jointly set up the 1st Defendant Company, yet
the 2nd Defendant/Appellant went behind them to among other things,
replace the Company Secretary, dilute the shareholding of the
Plaintiffs/Respondents, and imposed his family members on the 1st
Defendant Company without regard to due process with a view to annexing the
total running of the Company. <o:p></o:p>[2]
The Plaintiffs/Respondents therefore claimed as many
as nine reliefs from the Defendants jointly and severally which they endorsed
on their Writ of Summons filed on 6th May 2019. Naturally, the
Defendants denied the reliefs by the Plaintiffs/Respondents and also
counterclaimed for ten reliefs. <o:p></o:p>[3]
On the same day that the Respondents filed their
Writ of summons, they also filed an Ex-Parte Application for Interim Injunction
against t</main>