AGYIRI vs. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE

JUDGMENT OF MILLS-ODOI J.S.C. Mills-Odoi J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. We allowed this appeal at the last sitting, and now give our reasons for so doing. The appellant was, until the 18th October, 1961, an employee of the Ghana National Construction Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the corporation) and stationed at Takoradi. His duties included the preparation of orders for the supply of goods. According to the practice of the corporation, the orders were signed by the manager and sent to the suppliers whereupon the goods were supplied and delivered to the store-keeper of the corporation who signed a receipt for them. At the end of the month the suppliers sent a debit note to the corporation whose accountant authorised payment after satisfying himself that all was well. On a particular date not specified on the record, the manager of Allied Business Company sent to the corporation a bill for the sum of £G15 16s., being the cost of three cases of nail....