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GHACEM LIMITED
V.
SAMUEL YAW NYAMPONG

(2019) JELR 107280 (HC)

High Court 6 Feb 2019 Ghana
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- The Plaintiff sued the Defendant for the recovery of GH1,114,740.69, which represents money owed for goods supplied to the Defendant. The Defendant had issued postdated cheques for payment, which were dishonoured by the bank. - The Plaint

Case Details

Suit Number:GJ/808/2018
Judges:GIFTY AGYEI ADDO
Counsel:PAUL NERO BATANYE FOR THE PLAINTIFF; NO LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR THE DEFENDANT.

JUDGMENT

ADDO, J.

The Plaintiff on 23rd May, 2018, mounted this suit against the Defendant for the following reliefs endorsed on the Writ of Summons and accompanying Statement of Claim.

a. Recovery of the sum of One Million , One Thousand And Fourteen, Seven Hundred and Forty Ghana Cedis, Sixty-Nine Pesewas (GH1,114,740.69); which represents monies due to Plaintiff for goods supplied to Defendant for which he purported to pay by issuing postdated cheques which were dishonoured when presented to the bank.

b. Interest on the above stated amount at the prevailing commercial rate until date of final payment.

c. Costs.

The gravamen of the Plaintiff’s claim is contained in paragraphs 4 to 15 of its Statement of Claim, a summation of which is as follows:

According to the Plaintiff, sometime in 2007, the Defendant approached it and expressed interest to be a distributor of cement produced by Plaintiff.

The Plaintiff further states that a Distributorship Agreement was drawn up in resp…

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