NANCY MANA OTENG vs. SAMUEL K. DICKSON [2021]DLCA10808

Date	2021-06-24
Suit No.	SUIT NO. H1/181/2019
Citation No.	[2021]DLCA10808

L. L. MENSAH JA (PRESIDING)

A. A. GAISIE (MRS.) JA

E. BAAH JA

MOHAMMED ATTAH WITH SUSANA TETTEY FOR DEFENDANT/ APPELLANT.

ERIC ASUMAN WITH MICHAEL ADDO FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT.

[2021]DLCA10808
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >NANCY MANA OTENG<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>SAMUEL K. DICKSON<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF
APPEAL, 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: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>MOHAMMED ATTAH
WITH SUSANA TETTEY FOR DEFENDANT/<o:p></o:p>APPELLANT.<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: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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ASUMAN WITH MICHAEL ADDO FOR PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>L. L. MENSAH JA
(PRESIDING), A. A. GAISIE (MRS.) JA, E. BAAH JA<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 0cm;">

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</div>&nbsp;AMMA A. GAISIE (MRS.) JA<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;This is an appeal from the Judgment of
the High Court Tema dated 8th November, 2010 wherein judgment was
entered in favour of the Plaintiff/Respondent as follows:<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The
Defendant is hereby ordered to refund to the Plaintiff Twenty Three Thousand
United States Dollars (US$23000.00) or its cedi equivalent being the total
amount the Plaintiff paid to the Defendant for the acquisition of two
residential plots of land and to embark on the construction of a house.<o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Interest
at the prevailing bank rate from 2007 to the date of final payment.<o:p></o:p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Cost
of GH¢20,000.00 against the Defendant.<o:p></o:p>PLAINTIFF’S
CASE<o:p></o:p>The Plaintiff is a retired teacher
while the Defendant is an Architect in private practice. It is the Plaintiff’s
case that in 2005, she met the Defendant in New York who informed her that he
was a real estate developer and was constructing a gated Community at Prampram
Lalue. The Defendant convinced her to buy a residential plot of land within the
said Community at Seven Thousand United States dollars (US$7,000.00). In 2006,
the Defendant persuaded her and her husband to jointly purchase another plot at
a cost of Eight Thousand United State Dollars (US$8,000.00). The Plaintiff
avers further that the Defendant convinced them that he was putting up a house
on the land for them at a cost of US$24,000.00 and therefore Plaintiff and her
husband made an advance payment of Eight Thousand United States Dollars
(US$8,000.00). It is the Plaintiff’s case that the Defendant has failed to
enter into a sale agreement with her husband and her and when she sent people
to the proposed site to ascertain whether work had commenced on the project,
they were driven away by land guards. The Plaintiff contends that the refusal of
Defendant to hand over the property has led to the dissolution of her marriage
and her husband is demanding from her his Eight Thousand Dollars he invested in
the project. She therefore instituted this action in the High Court claiming
for:<o:p></o:p>1.