QUARCOO V. APPIAH

ABBAN J.

The plaintiff in this action claims special and general damages for the personal injuries which she sustained as a result of a motor accident involving a vehicle owned and driven by the defendant.

As stated in her evidence, the plaintiff is a member of a spiritual church, known as Bethany Church. The church is located at Kaneshie. Accra, and the plaintiff who lives at Osu always travels to Kaneshie to worship in this church. On 28 March 1969, after the usual church service, the plaintiff, in company of other members of this church, took a bus from Kaneshie bus stop to Accra Central Bus Station near the Opera Cinema. They could not get a bus to take them from this terminus to Osu as it was too late in the night and the last bus had apparently left.

Some of those persons at the bus station decided to walk home. The plaintiff and a friend of hers (the plaintiff’s first witness) after some hesitation also decided to walk. Consequently, they left this bus stop.

They walked along the …