TSEDE AND OTHERS vs. NUBUASA AND ANOTHER

JUDGMENT OF PREMPEH, J. In this case, the plaintiffs by their amended writ and statement of claim, claim against the defendants the sum of £G1,290 1s. 5d. representing balance of amount due to them on a guarantee note made by the defendants in their favour for the payment to them of the sum of £G1,340 1s. 5d. being a debt incurred by one Clemence Nubuasa to the plaintiffs as representatives of the New Ayoma Co-operative Society at Ayoma. The short facts of the case are that the plaintiffs who are the directors of the New Ayoma Co-operative Society, engaged one Clemence Nubuasa as a cocoa receiving clerk for the society. The said Clemence Nubuasa is the brother of the first defendant and a relative of the second defendant. In the course of his employment, Clemence Nubuasa incurred a deficit of £G1,340 1s. 5d. in his account, and when he was requested to pay that amount, he took them to the defendants who offered to give a note guaranteeing the payment of that amount on behalf of ...