[2022]DLHC16988 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><a name="_Hlk152146143"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">DAVID ANTOH AND HOTNA LIMITED<i> </i><o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">CAITEC MOTORS LIMITED AND CAITEC DELTA LIMITED<i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">(DEFENDANTS)</span></i><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:168.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> </span></p> <div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO: AC/574/15 DATE: 12<sup>TH</sup> DECEMBER 2022</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">COUNSEL<o:p></o:p></span></b></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="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">SAMUEL NARTEY KODJOE ESQ, FOR THE PLAINTIFFS <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;border:none; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">FELIX NANA OSEI ESQ, FOR THE DEFENDANTS<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">CORAM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE WILLIAM BOAMPONG</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></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="text-align:center;line-height:115%; 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"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:10.55pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Per<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>their<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Writ<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Summons<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Plaintiffs claim<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>against<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Defendants<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">follows:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:6.85pt;line-height:115%; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo6;tab-stops:46.55pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Damages<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>breach<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of Section<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>11<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Sale<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Goods<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Act<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>1962<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Act<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>137<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>by Defendants in the sale of FAW Truck No: GE 6334-11 to the Plaintiffs.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:6.65pt;line-height:115%; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo6;tab-stops:46.55pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Recovery<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>sum<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of US$63,000.00<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>(Sixty<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Three<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Thousand<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>United States Dollars) or its equivalent being the price paid by the Plaintiff for the said truck under Section 49(1) and 55 of the Sale of Good Acts (Act 137).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:6.95pt;line-height:115%; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo6;tab-stops:46.55pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">3.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Interests on the said amount at the prevailing commercial bank rate from 4<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>May, 2011 till date of final payment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:6.9pt;line-height:115%; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo6;tab-stops:46.55pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">4.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal;