PZ CUSSONS GHANA LIMITED vs. CHARITY QUANSAH, BOYE NYANTAKYI, ROSE GYAN, VIDA NYAMEKYE, MICHAEL SAMUEL BOATENG (SALBOAT) AND OBOSHI [2020]DLHC8915

PZ CUSSONS GHANA LIMITED vs. CHARITY QUANSAH, BOYE NYANTAKYI, ROSE GYAN, VIDA N... [2020]DLHC8915

Date	2020-05-29
Suit No.	SUIT NO. GJ/1558/2019
Citation No.	[2020]DLHC8915

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE JENNIFER ABENA DADZIE

THEODOCIA NAANA QUARTEY ESQ. (HOLDING BRIEF FOR SAMMANI M. ZACHARY

ESQ.) OF LEGAL LINK LABONE ACCRA COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF

NO LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR DEFENDANTS

[2020]DLHC8915
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >PZ CUSSONS GHANA
LIMITED<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>CHARITY QUANSAH, BOYE NYANTAKYI, ROSE
GYAN, VIDA NYAMEKYE, MICHAEL SAMUEL BOATENG (SALBOAT) AND OBOSHI<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, 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. GJ/1558/2019&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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 MAY, 2020<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>THEODOCIA
NAANA QUARTEY, ESQ. (HOLDING BRIEF FOR SAMMANI M. ZACHARY, ESQ.) OF LEGAL LINK,
LABONE, ACCRA, COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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</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 JUSTICE JENNIFER ABENA DADZIE<o:p></o:p>

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</div>The Plaintiff herein is a company
registered under the laws of Ghana and involved in the sale of household
appliances and other consumables whiles the Defendants are traders and ‘statutory
tenants’ of the Plaintiff, occupying its property situate at Bannerman Road with
the digital address GA-326-6855.<o:p></o:p>The material facts giving rise to this
action are simple and pretty straight forward. The Defendants who are tenants
of the Plaintiff residing in the property situate at Bannerman Road, the
subject matter of the suit herein, had their tenancies expiring respectively in
2006. At that time, several notices were served on them to give up possession, however,
they failed or refused to do same despite the leeway given them by the
Plaintiff in a bid to get them to vacate, which includes a grace period of six
(6) months to enable them pay their arrears between 2006 and 2012 and also to look
for alternative accommodation. However, none of the Defendants complied with
the notices. As a result, Plaintiff instituted an action against them in suit
number AC 132/2013 but proceedings were halted for parties to attempt out of
court settlement. Once attempts at settlement failed, Plaintiff returned to
have the case relisted but this could not be done for a number of reasons. A
fresh action was therefore instituted by the Plaintiff on July 4, 2019 after
compliance with Regulation 18 of the Rent Regulations, 1964 (LI 369) for the
following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
An
eviction order against the Defendants from the property situate at Bannerman
Road, James Town, Accra<o:p></o:p>b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Mesne
profit from the date 2006 till the date of eviction<o:p></o:p>c.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Costs
incidental to this suit.<o:p></o:p>Plaintiff avers that Defendants would
not vacate the property unless by order of this court and that it is in need of
the property to further expand its business and to maintain the property as
well, since it is in a deplorable state. <o:p></o:p>Before I proceed, I would note that there
is proof on record that the Defendants herein had been served with the Writ of
Summons and Statement of Claim by substituted service on August 19, 2019. There
is further proof that the witness statement of Plaintiff’s witness as well as
the hearing notice for the adjourned date were also served on the Defendants by
same means on April 30, 2019. Nonetheless, the Defendants failed or neglected
to enter appearance or put in a defence within the time limited by the rules.
Thus on November 19, 2019, this court awarded interlocutory judgment in favour
of the Plaintiff for reliefs (a) and (b) as endorsed on the writ of summons and
reserved the issue of cost to be addressed at the time the Plaintiff obtains
final judgment. The case was then adjourned finally to May 21, 2020 for
Plaintiff to present evidence in proof of its claim for final judgment. Indeed,
there is proof on record that the Defendants were ser</main>