[2022]DLHC17103 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">LAWRENCE YAW NTAADU<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></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"">(PLAINTIFF)<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">STEPHEN BOAKYE PER THE LAWFUL ATTORNEY SAMUEL BULU<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)<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: - E1/14/2016 DATE: 24<sup>TH</sup> NOVEMBER 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">BARIMAH AGYEKUM-HINNEH FOR THE PLAINTIFF <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">COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENDANT (NANA OBIRI BOAHEN)<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 KWAME AMOAKO<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> <h1 style="margin-right:6.75pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></h1> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:6.85pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:7.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>brief facts<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>giving<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>rise<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to this<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>action<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>that,<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>parties<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>agreed<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Hotel<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Mercillina, belonging to the Plaintiff be transferred or sold to the Defendant at a total cost of GH¢150,000.00. The Defendant made a total part payment of GH¢40,000.00 leaving an outstanding balance of GH¢110,000.00 to be paid on or before 31<span style="position:relative; top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">st<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span></span>December 2014. The agreement,<span style="letter-spacing:2.8pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>which<span style="letter-spacing:2.8pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:2.8pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>subsequently<span style="letter-spacing:2.85pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>reduced<span style="letter-spacing:2.95pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>into<span style="letter-spacing:2.85pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>writing<span style="letter-spacing:2.9pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>dated<span style="letter-spacing:2.8pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>22<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">nd<span style="letter-spacing:1.9pt"> </span></span>April<span style="letter-spacing:2.8pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">2014, </span>contained<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>a clause that entitled<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Plaintiff<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>to review<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>transaction upon<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>failure of<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the Defendant<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>pay<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>outstanding purchase balance by the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>31<span style="position:relative; top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">st<span style="letter-spacing:1.2pt"> </span></span>December<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>2014<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>deadline. The Defendant, after making the total part payment of GH¢40,000.00 to the Plaintiff, took possession of the hotel, which he has been operating under the name Hotel <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Obaapa.</span><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">Claiming <i>inter alia </i>that the Defendant failed to pay the outstanding balance within the stipulated time, the Plaintiff, on 23<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt">rd<span style="letter-spacing:1.85pt"> </span></span>December 2015, filed a Writ of Summons together with a Statement of Claim against the Defendant claiming the following reliefs:-<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="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:6.9pt;text-align:justify; line-height:115%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:60.9pt 61.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; letter-spacing:-.15pt">i)<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">An order for recovery of possession of the building whi