OSHODEMIRIN vs. TETTEH

The facts in this case are in a comparatively small compass so far as they are relevant to what we have to decide in this appeal, and they are these: On 25 August 1964, the Accra-Tema Development Corporation formally granted the plaintiff licence to enter plot No. D/129 C, situated at Ashaeman, within the corporation’s area of administration, and to erect thereon a temporary dwelling-house. One of the conditions of the licence was that the plaintiff would pay to the corporation a monthly fee of ten shillings in advance on the first day of every month. Another important clause in the licence reads as follows: “This licence may be either expressly revoked by the Corporation by one month’s notice in writing expiring at any time, delivered to you the licensee or posted on the said land, or impliedly terminated by you the licensee, whenever your fee is one month or more in arrears, or may be expressly terminated by you, the licensee, giving to the corporation one month’s notice in ...