An Accra Circuit Court has ordered a businessman to pay GH¢200,000 in damages after terminating an 11-year relationship built on a promise of marriage, triggering a legal battle over property and emotional loss.
The Court entered judgment in favour of Ms Ernestina Torgbor, the defendant, on her counterclaim for breach of promise to marry against Mr Vince Kontoh, the plaintiff.
Presided over by Justice Sedinam Awo Kwadam, a High Court Judge sitting with additional responsibility as a Circuit Court Judge, the Court awarded Ernestina GH¢50,000 as general damages and GH¢150,000 as compensation for the breach.
The Court also ordered Vince to pay interest at prevailing commercial bank rates on the amount from February 16, and awarded GH¢20,000 in favour of Ernestina.
It further declared that Ernestina had a beneficial interest in a two-bedroom apartment at East Legon, Accra, and directed that she should continue to use a Toyota RAV4 vehicle and an industrial blender, since Vince had laid no claim to them.
The parties were also directed to take all necessary steps to regularise Ernestina’s interest in a six-unit, two-bedroom apartment block at East Legon.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/GNA
