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B5 PLUS LTD.V. SPECIAL STEEL LTD. & ORS

(2025) JELR 113282 (HC)

High Court 27 Jan 2025 Ghana
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- The Plaintiff, a steel trading company, sued the 1st Defendant (a steel manufacturer) and its Chairman (2nd Defendant) to recover unpaid sums for steel billets supplied on credit, financial assistance, goods for plant maintenance, and rel

Case Details

Suit Number:CM/RPC/0687/2018
Judges:SHEILA MINTA, J.
Counsel:ANITA DABI, ESQ., WITH JOSHUA BOOWURU, ESQ., HOLDING BRIEF FOR SAMUEL CODJOE, ESQ., FOR PLAINTIFF – PRESENT COUNSEL FOR 1ST AND 2ND DEFENDANTS – ABSENT
Location:Accra

JUDGMENT

MINTA, J.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF FACTS

The Plaintiff a company in the business of trading and selling steel products has had to issue a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim on 10th October, 2018 against the 1st Defendant and 2nd Defendant the Chairman of the 1st Defendant Company. The 1st Defendant Company is also a manufacturer in the steel products business. Their relationship as seller and buyer was carried out in a manner of credit sale agreements and sometimes loans repayable in goods or funds. The Plaintiff has sued the Defendants for the payment of various sums of money for the supply of steel billets, monies advanced to it to pay 1st Defendant’s indebtedness to Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and for payment of scraps as well as monies advance for the payment of salaries of 1st Defendant’s workers.

The Defendants denied the claim of the Plaintiff. In the course of the trial certain matters came up which revealed that the 1st Defendant Company was in liquidation/receivershi…

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