LAMPTEY J.: On 4 September 1986 Opanin Osafo Buabeng, counsel for the plaintiff-applicant, filed an ex parte motion
“praying for leave to serve [the writ of summons] on the third, fourth and fifth defendants in the above stated suit outside the jurisdiction of this court as per the grounds set forth in the affidavit attached hereto . . .”
On that same date, i.e. 4 September 1986, Opanin Osafo Buabeng filed an ex parte motion and in that application sought an order of interim injunction “restraining the third, fourth and fifth defendants their agents, e.t.c. from removing and or shipping or transferring any one of the containers belonging to the third, fourth and fifth defendants already stacked at and, or coming to the Port of Tema outside the jurisdiction of this court on the grounds set forth in the affidavit attached hereto . . .”
The application seeking leave to serve the writ of summons on the three defendants out of the jurisdiction came on for hearing before Brobbey J. on 8 Septem…