ABUSUAPANYIN KOFI TUTU vs NANA DUROWAA NYARKO & 2 OTHERS [2023]DLCA16034

Date	2023-01-26
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. H1/60/2022
Citation No.	[2023]DLCA16034

ANGELINA MENSAH-HOMIAH (MRS) JA (PRESIDING)

YAW DARKO ASARE JA

GEORGE KROFA ADDAE J

AIKINS OSEI AMOAKO WITH KWAME ADOMAKO AFRAM AND DR. JOSEPH KWAKU ASARE

KWADWO OWUSU ANSAH

[2023]DLCA16034
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ABUSUAPANYIN KOFI TUTU<o:p></o:p>[PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT]<o:p></o:p>vs<o:p></o:p>NANA DUROWAA
NYARKO &amp; 2 OTHERS<o:p></o:p>[DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS]<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<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;">

CIVIL APPEAL NO. H1/60/2022
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</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>AIKINS OSEI AMOAKO WITH KWAME ADOMAKO AFRAM
AND DR. JOSEPH KWAKU ASARE <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;">

KWADWO OWUSU ANSAH <o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM: <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;">

ANGELINA MENSAH-HOMIAH (MRS) JA (PRESIDING), YAW DARKO ASARE JA, GEORGE KROFA ADDAE J<o:p></o:p>

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JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>YAW DARKO ASARE, JA<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;This interlocutory
appeal emanates from the Ruling of High Court, Kumasi dated the 24th of March 2020, whereby the trial court granted an application filed at the instance of
the Plaintiff herein praying for an order of interlocutory injunction to
restrain the Defendants from removing the corpse of one Baffour Kofi Senkyire
(deceased) from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, laying him in state,
burying, and organizing the funeral rites of the deceased, Baffuor Kofi Senkyere.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;We must begin our
consideration of this interlocutory appeal by noting from the outset, that the
central issue raised in this appeal is within a very narrow compass. It is
this: whether or not in the absence
of a trial, it is open to a trial Court, upon the determination of
an interlocutory application, to grant the substantive reliefs endorsed on the
writ of summons, when those endorsed reliefs were declaratory in nature?<o:p></o:p>This, it seems to us
is the pivotal issue upon which this appeal would ultimately turn and it is to
this task that we may now set ourselves to address, seeking for guidance in
this regard, what the principles of the law are, as settled by case law.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;For purposes
of convenience, the Parties in these proceedings, shall bear the same
designation that they bore in the trial Court and accordingly the Plaintiff/Respondent herein
shall be described
as Plaintiff, whilst