OSMOND vs. HUGHES

JUDGMENT OF APALOO J.A. This is from the judgment of the High Court, Sekondi, (Bruce-Lyle J. as he then was) dated 24 January 1964. By the judgment, the court dismissed an action brought by the appellant (hereinafter called the plaintiff) against the respondent (hereinafter referred to as the defendant) for a declaration of title to land and building situate at Ashanti Road, Takoradi, described as plot No. 21 and for recovery of the sum of £G312 which the plaintiff claimed the defendant collected as rent form tenants of the said premises. The plaintiff was born in June 1927. He is the son of the late Osmond Alfred Hughes who died in or about 1959. He has a serious deformity in the leg and is a near cripple. The learned trial judge described this as an abnormality in one leg. His late father was a qualified pharmacist and was, for many years, employed in that capacity by government. Some years before his death, Mr. Hughes retired from government service on pension and thereafter s....