MADAM EUGENIA AKUETTEH vs. KOFI BAAH & 67 OTHERS [2020]DLSC9915

Date	2020-11-25
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/61/2019
Citation No.	[2020]DLSC9915

YEBOAH CJ (PRESIDING)

GBADEGBE JSC

MARFUL-SAU JSC

OWUSU (MS) JSC

KULENDI JSC

KWESI AUSTIN FOR THE PLAINTIFF/REPONDENT/RESPONDENT

A.G. BOADU FOR THE DEFENDANTS AND CO-DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS/APPELLANTS

[2020]DLSC9915
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><a name="_Hlk35510717">MADAM
EUGENIA AKUETTEH<o:p></o:p></a>&nbsp;(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>KOFI BAAH &amp; 67 OTHERS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>ONAMROKOR ADAIN
FAMILY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>(1ST
CO-DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>JONAFOACO CO. LTD.<o:p></o:p>(2ND CO-DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>AND <o:p></o:p>MADAM EUGENIA AKUETTEH<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>BEN AMOAKO ATTA &amp; 11 OTHERS<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>JONAFOACO CO. LTD.<o:p></o:p>(1ST
CO-DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT) <o:p></o:p>ONAMROKOR ADAIN FAMILY<o:p></o:p>(2ND CO-DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/APPELLANT)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<o:p></o:p>[SUPREME COURT, ACCRA]<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. J4/61/2019&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;DATE:
25TH
NOVEMBER, 2020<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>KWESI AUSTIN FOR THE
PLAINTIFF/REPONDENT/RESPONDENT.<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;">

A.G. BOADU FOR THE
DEFENDANTS AND CO-DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS/APPELLANTS.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>YEBOAH, CJ (PRESIDING),
GBADEGBE, JSC, MARFUL-SAU, JSC, OWUSU (MS), JSC, KULENDI, JSC&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <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>GBADEGBE, JSC:&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>My Lords, we have before us
an appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeal that affirmed the decision
of the trial High Court in the above consolidated actions. The sole ground of
appeal before us is the general ground “That
the judgment is against the weight of the evidence.” As the relevant
authorities on concurrent findings require us as the final appellate court to
intervene in respect of such concurrent findings by the two lower courts only
when such decisions are perverse or unreasonable, the question for our decision
turns largely on the probative value of the evidence on which the decisions of
the two lower courts is based. By the effect of the authorities, the appellants
must demonstrate clearly that the factual determinations suffer from a
misapplication of the relevant rules of evidence or glossed over vital
documentary or oral evidence and or misread the evidence. See: Gregory Tandoh
v Hanson [2010] SCGLR 970. Simply put, the effect of the
evidence contained in the record of appeal should in the eyes of a reasonable
tribunal point in a direction other than that accepted by the two lower courts.
And in this regard, it is important to reiterate what the Court has repeatedly
said that provided the decision of the two lower courts is supported by the evidence,
we cannot interfere to substitute their decision with our own view of the facts
on which their decision was based.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>