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The Management of Consolidated Group, Inc. v Bayusie (2019)

The Management of Consolidated Group, Inc. by & thru its CEO, Mr. Simeon Freeman of the City of Monrovia, Liberia  Appellant Versus Wilton S. Bayusie, Sr. of the City of Monrovia, Liberia Appellee

 

APPEAL

 

ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENT

UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE

 

Heard: October 31, 2019                                             Decided: December 23, 2019

JUDGMENT WITHOUT OPINION

When this case was called for hearing, Counsellor Milton D. Taylor of the Law Offices of Taylor & Associates, Inc. appeared for the appellant. Counsellor Sam Y. Cooper ofthe Legal Minds, Inc. appeared for the appellee.

The Counsels for the parties brought to the attention of the Court that the parties had filed a Joint Stipulation of Withdrawal in keeping with Rule ill, Part Il, of the Revised Rules of the Supreme Court.

The Joint Stipulation of Voluntary Withdrawal reads as follows:

“JOINT STIPULATION OF VOLUNTARY WITHDRAWAL

Appellant and appellee in the above entitled captioned cause most respectfully pray Your Honors for the withdrawal and abatement of the said captioned case, and by this instrument the parties hereby enter a Joint Stipulation of Withdrawal and Abatement and hereby terminating the enforcement of judgment and the Action of Unfair Labor Practice out of which the appeal grows, and for the legal and factual reasons showeth the following, to wit:

  1. l) That Rule 111, Part Il of the 1999 Revised Rules of the Supreme Court provides that, whenever the appellant and appellee or the petitioner

 

ASSOCIATE OF JUSTICE  SUPREME COURT OF LIBERIA

and the respondent shall in vacation by themselves or counsel, sign and file with the Clerk of the Supreme Court an agreement in writing, directing the cause to be withdrawn and specifying the terms on which it is to be withdrawn as to costs, shall pay to the Clerk any fees that may be due to him, and the ministerial officers.

2) That in full knowledge of the law cited above, a certain settlement agreement executed on August 17, 2018, by and between appellant and appellee specifically paragraph three (3) thereof, have instructed their respective legal counsels to file a Joint Stipulation of Withdrawal and Abatement, thereby terminating the appeal and the case out of which said appeal emanates in its entirety and forever.

3) That predicated upon the averments contained in count two (2) above, the appellant and the appellee agreed on the following:

  1. That the appeal emanating from the petition for enforcement of judgment shall be, and the same is hereby withdrawn, abated and terminated forever; ii. That a judgment without opinion be rendered by the Honorable

Supreme Court of Liberia in the appeal during its October Term A.D. 2019; and iii. That this Joint Stipulation of Withdrawal and Abatement be filed by the Clerk of the Supreme Court, and by that filing, the appeal in the petition for enforcement ofjudgment and the case in its entirety be terminated forever.

That the lawyers for both parties having acknowledged the Joint Stipulation of Voluritary Withdrawal and Abatement to be their acts done with the permission of their respective clients, and the Court, being satisfied that the said Joint Stipulation of Voluntary Withdrawal and Abatement meets the requirement of the law, it is hereby,

OF

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE

SUPREME COURT OF LIBERIA

ADJUDGED:

That the Joint Stipulation of Voluntary Withdrawal and Abatement be and the same is hereby approved and the cause ordered stricken from the docket of the Supreme Court. The Clerk of this Court is ordered to send a Mandate to the trial judge to resume jurisdiction over this case and give effect to this Judgment. And it is so ordered.

GIVEN UNDER OUR HANDS AND THE SEAL

OF THE SUPREME COURT OF LIBERIA, THIS

23 rd DAY OF DECEMBER, . D. 2019

Howard-Wolokolie

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT OF LIBERIA

Sie-A-Nyen G. Yuoil

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT OF LIBERIA

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT OF LIBERIA

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