THE REPUBLIC vs. GLADYS ANIM OBENEWAA , EX-PARTE; AKOSUA SEMANHYIA [2021]DLHC12006

Date	2021-11-17
Suit No.	SUIT NO. CR/0519/2021
Citation No.	[2021]DLHC12006

HIS LORDSHIP CHARLES GYAMFI DANQUAH J.

SIMON NARTEH BOTCHWAY ESQ. FOR THE APPLICANT.

KOJO TACHIE MENSON ESQ. FOR THE RESPONDENT

[2021]DLHC12006
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE
REPUBLIC <o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>GLADYS ANIM OBENEWAA <o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>EX-PARTE; AKOSUA SEMANHYIA<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH 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: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

SUIT NO. CR/0519/2021&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:
17TH&nbsp;NOVEMBER 2021<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL&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; <o:p></o:p>SIMON NARTEH BOTCHWAY
ESQ. FOR THE APPLICANT.,<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;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">KOJO TACHIE MENSON
ESQ. FOR THE RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP CHARLES
GYAMFI DANQUAH J.<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;
mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>&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;<o:p></o:p>The Applicant on the 9th June, 2021 filed a
motion on notice for an Order committing the Respondent for contempt of Court. The
contempt application has its roots from the case with suit No. C1/41/2020
instituted by the Applicant then as Plaintiff against the Respondent and a
Company known as BLU CONSULT LIMITED. In the said suit the Applicant claimed
from the Respondent and the Company a declaration of title to land with building
situate thereon, recovery of possession and or ejection, perpetual injunction, damages
for trespass, damages for breach of contract as well as for cost.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;THE APPLICANT’S CASE<o:p></o:p>The Applicant’s case is that the building in dispute which
is at Kwabenya was allocated to the Applicant after she entered into a contract
with the BLU CONSULT LTD for the construction of a house by the Company and the
sale of same to the Applicant. When the Company allocated the building to the
Applicant and without her knowledge the Respondent moved into occupation of the
building. The Applicant as stated sued the Respondent and the Company and again
applied for an order for preservation of the property and for an order of
injunction to restrain the Respondent from altering the property and to cause
her to vacate the property. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;RESPONDENT’S CASE<o:p></o:p>The Respondent filed her affidavit in opposition to the
application and admitted that the Applicant filed a suit against her and
subsequently filed a motion for two interlocutory reliefs. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;They are;<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:27.9pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Preservation of the property, the
subject matter of the suit consisting of a land measuring 0.078 acres with
uncompleted building situated thereon by locking up same </main>