DEBRAIN INVESTIMENT COMPANY
V.
ARAMEX EXPRESS SERVICES

This case raises fascinating legal questions on the scope of legal concepts such as lien, detinue and conversion under common law. There had been in existence a form of agreement between the parties, for the plaintiff, a freight forwarding and clearing company to use the services of defendant, a courier services company for the transportation of electronic gadgets of the clients of plaintiff. The bill for the shipment of the goods of the clients of plaintiff was supposed to be sent to it sometime later for payment. Defendant, incandescent with rage that its bill of Gh¢54.000 being credit line bill arrears owed it and sent to plaintiff had not been honoured, took hold of the goods of the clients of plaintiff, that it had air lifted to Ghana on behalf of plaintiff, in the guise of having a lien on them. The plaintiff remonstrated about the devastating toll the non-release of the goods was having on its business. The obstinate refusal of defendant to release the goods notwithstanding the…