Stella Banyu v Haji Abdul Migade (Miscellaneous Application No.441 of 2006) (Miscellaneous Application No.441 of 2006) [2007] UGHC 24 (8 March 2007)

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\li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14442189 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA}{\insrsid12333622\charrsid14442189 \par }{\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 IN THE HIGH COURT OF UGANDA AT KAMPALA \par MISCELLENOUS APPLICATION NO. 441 OF 2006 \par (ARISING OUT OF CIVIL SUIT NO. 329 OF 2006) \par STELLA BANYU }{\insrsid14093903\charrsid14442189 }{\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::}{\insrsid14093903\charrsid14442189 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: }{\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 RESPONDENT/PLAINTIFF \par }{\b\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 VERSUS \par }{\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 HAJI ABDUL MIGADDE }{\insrsid14093903\charrsid14442189 }{\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::}{\insrsid14093903\charrsid14442189 }{\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 APPLICANT/DEFENDANT \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14442189 {\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 \par }{\b\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 BEFORE: HON. AG. JUDGE REMMY K. KASULE \par \par RULING: \par \par }\pard \qj \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14442189 {\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 The applicant seeks unconditional leave to appeal and defend Civil Suit Number 330 of 2006. \par \par In the suit the Respondent claims from the Applicant Ug. Shs.25,700,000/= being money she paid to applicant for purchase of land that the applicant never delivered to the Respondent. \par \par In the Plaint, and in her affidavit in support of the claim as well as in the affidavit in reply to that of the applicant, Plaintiff asserts that in June 2004, Respondent offered to sell to her a piece of land: Plot 33 Naguru Drive, Kampala, at shs.20,000,000/=. After she had paid more than half of the purchase price, she discovered that the Respondent , without informing her, had sold the very plot to someone else. When she confronted Respondent, the latter offered an alternative Plot situate on Magonga Close, Naguru at shs.30,000,000/=. Respondent accepted the alternative offer and paid Applicant }{ \insrsid15624782\charrsid14442189 Ug. Shs.25,700,000/= only to discover later on that the plot did not belong to Applicant, and that the same had been sold to someone else by Applicant\rquote s mother.}{\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 \par }{\insrsid15624782\charrsid14442189 \par Respondent decided to report the matter to police, whereupon, after the report had been made, Applicant prayed upon Respondent to have the matter mutually settled. \par \par On 29.03.06 Applicant undertook in writing to refund the Respondent\rquote s money in two installments of Ug. Shs.13,000,000/= and Ug. Shs.12,700,000/= payable on 12.04.06 and 12.05.06 respectively. \par \par The Applicant failed to honour the undertaking, and Respondent sued him by summary suit Under Order 33 Rules 1 and 2 (old version); order 36 Rules 1 and 2, (new version) of the Civil Procedure Rules. \par \par The Applicant, on basis of several grounds in the N otice of Motion and his affidavit in reply, contends he be given unconditional leave to appear and defend the suit as there are triable issues. The grounds are that Respondent breached the sale agreements, yet the knew time was of essence in the agreemen ts. The agreements breaches caused financial loss to Applicant, which Respondent agreed to reimburse, only to renegade later. The written acknowledgement to pay the debt was obtained by coercion at the police CID Headquarters. \par \par The applicant who seeks lea ve to appear and defend has the burden to show and convince Court, by affidavit or otherwise that prima facie, there is also an afide triable issue of fact or law in dispute which the Court ought to determine between the parties to the suit. \par }{\insrsid3620065\charrsid14442189 \par At this stage, the applicant is not bound to show and convince Court that there is a good defence on the merits of the case and the Court is not entitled to enquire into the merits or demerits of the Applicant\rquote s defence to the suit. \par \par However, the applicant, inspite of the above legal position has the burden to prove, and the Court must study the grounds raised and ascertain whether they raise real triable issues and not sham over. Court must be satisfied that if the facts alleged by the applicant were established, the re would be a plausible defence : See: }{\b\insrsid3620065\charrsid14442189 Abubaker Kato Kasule Vs. Tomson Muhwezi [1992-1993] HCB 212}{\insrsid3620065\charrsid14442189 . \par \par It is also incumbent upon the applicant, as a matter of practice, to annex the proposed defence to the application. This is to enable Court to be able t o tell whether the arguments put forward by Applicant amount to a meritable defence raising triable issues: See }{\b\insrsid3620065\charrsid14442189 Mukoome Agencies Vs. UCB [1982] HCB 22, }{\insrsid3620065\charrsid14442189 and also }{ \b\insrsid3620065\charrsid14442189 High Court Miscellaneous Application No. 611 of 2001: G. K. O. Trading Co. Ltd. Vs. Sun Trade and Consulting International (U) Ltd}{\insrsid3620065\charrsid14442189 . (Okumu Wengi. J.) unreported. \par \par }{\insrsid14746459\charrsid14442189 The Applicant did not attach the proposed defence to the application.}{\insrsid3620065\charrsid14442189 \par }{\insrsid14746459\charrsid14442189 \par In the Notice of Motion and in the affidavit sub-headed \'93Affidavit In Reply\'94, but in actual fact is affidavit in support of his application, the applicant does not deny that the Respondent paid him Shs.25}{\insrsid14093903\charrsid14442189 ,700,000} {\insrsid14746459\charrsid14442189 /= also denied that the money was paid as price for purchase of land, the applicant purported to sell to the Respondent, and that the land has never been delivered to the Respondent}{\insrsid2578714\charrsid14442189 .}{ \insrsid14746459\charrsid14442189 \par }{\insrsid2578714\charrsid14442189 \par In Paragraph 3 of his affidavit, Applicant does not explain how the Respondent refused or failed to pay the agreed purchase price in a manner agreed upon, and what the agreed upon mode of payment was. \par \par There is no disclosure in paragraph 5 of his affidavit of what the amounts to be offset as \'93the outstanding balance due to me, and losses incurred\'94 as a result of the transaction are, let alone the balance }{\insrsid14093903\charrsid14442189 to be passed over to Respondent.}{\insrsid2578714\charrsid14442189 \par }{\insrsid14093903\charrsid14442189 \par Similarly in para 6 of the affidavit, there are no details of the \'93accountability\'94 applicant exhibited. \par \par There is nothing in paragraph 7 of the Applicant\rquote s affidavit that takes away liability from him from refunding to the Respondent the sum paid for the land. \par \par In paragraphs 8 and 9, Applicant asserts that he was coarsed at and by, the police to sign the document undertaking to refund the money to the Respondent by the 12}{\super\insrsid14093903\charrsid14442189 th}{\insrsid14093903\charrsid14442189 May 2006.

\par \par Assuming that what the applicant asserts as coercion is true, the respondent is not basing her claim solely on this doc ument. The claim is founded on the premise that between June 2004 and February 2006, the Applicant received the sum claimed from the Respondent as purchase price for land in Naguru offered by applicant. The applicant took the money but failed to deliver the land. \par \par The applicant has not, in the considered view of Court, presented any facts or points of law as to bring out any triable issues with regard to the essence of the Respondent\rquote s claim. The Court holds the grounds and facts thereof advanced by th e applicant for unconditional leave to appear and defend the suit to be a sham. \par \par Accordingly this application is dismissed with costs. \par \par Judgment is entered for the Plaintiff in Civil Suit Number 329 of 2006 for the liquidated sum of Shs.25,700,000/=. It is also ordered that the Defendant pays costs of the suit to the Plaintiff. \par \par \par }{\b\insrsid14093903\charrsid14442189 Remmy K. Kasule \par Ag. Judge \par 9}{\b\super\insrsid14093903\charrsid14442189 th}{\b\insrsid14093903\charrsid14442189 March 2007 \par }{\b\insrsid15624782\charrsid14442189 \par \par }{\insrsid15624782\charrsid14442189 \par }{\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14442189 {\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 \par }{\b\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 \par }{\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14442189 {\insrsid11028988\charrsid14442189 \par }}