ALEX OSEI-OWUSU V. PRUDENTIAL BANK & BARCLAYS BANK PLC

JUDGMENT

BATU, J.

The Plaintiff a customer of the First Defendant since 1996  entered into an agreement with Reid Equipment Solutions, a  company based in Canada to purchase an excavator in 2012. He  paid a deposit of US$5000.00 and returned to Ghana. Plaintiff  then received an invoice dated 18th September 2012 exhibit B1  ostensibly from his business partner. By exhibit “B” dated 4th October 2012 the instructed the First Defendant: 

“RE-TRANSPER OF FUNDS FROM NUMBER  0050543670004. 

Kindly transfer the net sum of $25,000.00 (twenty-five thousand  dollars) from my account number 050543670004 at the Madina branch for the benefit of REID EQUIPMENT SOLUTIONS  whose account details are annexed hereto to enable me make part  settlement for the purchase of the equipment the details of which  are indicated on the annexure.” 

The annexure, exhibit “B1” reads: 

REID EQUIPMENT SOLUTIONS LTD 

1946 Wilkinson Street 

Innostil, Ontario 

L9S IX3

INVOICE 

September 18, 2012 

ALEX OSEI-OWUSU 

P.O. BOX CT 6658…