[2022]DLHC17046 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%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><a name="_Hlk153451015"></a><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">FLOKIDS COMPANY LIMITED<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><b><i><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"> </span></i></b><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"">(PLAINTIFFS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><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%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><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">GABRIEL AMOATENG (ALHAJI) & ERIC OBENG ACHEAMPONG<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><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"">(DEFENDANT/CLAIMANT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><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:4.5pt 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%;tab-stops:4.5pt; 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. MISC/01/2023 DATE: 1<sup>ST</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%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><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="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;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">AUGUSTINE GYAMFI, ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFF/JUDGMENT CREDITOR<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="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;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">EMMANUEL AGYRI, ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANT/JUDGMENT DEBTOR<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><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%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE EMMANUEL A. LODOH, J.<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 0cm;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt;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 0cm 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="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Background</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.7pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:7.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The Plaintiff/Judgment Creditor (hereafter to be called “Plaintiff”) secured a judgment on 23<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">rd<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>June, 2022 against the Defendant/Judgment Debtor (hereafter to be called “Defendant”) for the payment of a liquidated amount.<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>Following the judgment the Plaintiff initiated execution processes and subsequently attached a Nissan Pathfinder vehicle with registration number AS 8670-11 purported to belong or was in the possession of the Defendant.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.65pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:7.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Following the attachment, the Claimant on 15<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise: 3.5pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:1.75pt"> </span></span>September, 2022 and in line with Order 44 rule 12 (1)<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>notified<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Registrar<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of his<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>claim<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>over the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>said<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>vehicle levied<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>execution. Unsurprisingly,<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the Plaintiff<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>disputed<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>claim and<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>in accordance<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span>with Order<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>44<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>rule<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">12</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.65pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:7.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">(2) gave notice of her intention to dispute on 14<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise: 3.5pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>October, 2022. The Court on 17<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>November, 2022, after the close of the processes set the matter down for summary determination and took evidence from the parties in support of their respective claims.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:7.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt">Trial</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:7.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:7.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The sole question for trial to my mind is whether or not the disputed vehicle belongs to the claimant. The Claimant and the Plaintiff representative both testified in court. None of them called any witnesses to their aid.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.9pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:7.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">On the totality of the evidence led by the parties, I find that it has not been disputed by the claimant that the disputed vehicle was recovered directly from<span style="letter-spacing:-.1p