[2023]DLHC16889 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><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">EBENEZER EMMANUEL JOSIAH & 20RS.<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"">(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">VICTOR TWUM SAVAGE & 40RS.<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"">(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%; 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"">E12/153/2016 DATE: 26<sup>TH</sup> JANUARY 2023 </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> <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%;tab-stops:4.5pt; border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm; mso-padding-alt:0cm 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"">COUNSEL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt; 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">ISAAC AGREY FYNN, ESQ. FOR 5TH DEFENDANT.<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 right 479.0pt"><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">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE EMMANUEL A. LODOH J. </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 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%; 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 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="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:140.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: -29.2pt;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>plaintiff<span style="letter-spacing:1.95pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>7th<span style="position:relative; top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt;letter-spacing:3.3pt"> </span>April,<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>2016<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>took<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>out<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing:1.9pt"> </span>Writ<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>Summons<span style="letter-spacing:1.95pt"> </span>action<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>against<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>eight<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>(8) defendants.<span style="letter-spacing:1.55pt"> </span>Subsequently<span style="letter-spacing:1.65pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:1.5pt"> </span>14th<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt;letter-spacing:2.9pt"> </span>June,<span style="letter-spacing:1.6pt"> </span>2017<span style="letter-spacing:1.65pt"> </span>following<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:1.6pt"> </span>grant<span style="letter-spacing:1.55pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:1.55pt"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing:1.55pt"> </span>application<span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">for</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">joinder filed on 5th<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt;letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>June, 2017, the court joined the 5th<span style="position:relative; top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt;letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>Defendant as party to the suit. Prior to that, the Plaintiff on 22nd<span style="position: relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt;letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>March 2017 had discontinued the action against four (of the Defendants) namely, 4th, 5th, 6th<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt;letter-spacing: 2.0pt"> </span>and 7th<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise: 3.5pt;letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>Defendants. The 5th<span style="position: relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt;letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>Defendant subsequently died and was substituted by Obaapanyin Angela Sabin-Quarm. The writ was subsequently amended to reflect these changes. The final amended writ was filed on 22nd<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt; letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>September, 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Discontinuance<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>(5th<span style="position:relative; top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise:3.5pt;letter-spacing:1.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Defendant)</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Counsel for the Plaintiffs on behalf of the Plaintiffs on 26th<span style="position:relative;top:-3.5pt;mso-text-raise: 3.5pt;letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>November, 2018 filed a motion praying as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">“PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that this Honourable Court will be moved by counsel for th