PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL, AGOGO vs. BOATENG

JUDGEMENT OF OSEI-HWERE J.A The subject matter of the action that gave birth to this appeal is simple and it did not involve any difficult questions of fact and of law. The plaintiff-respondent (to be described hereinafter as the plaintiff) sued out a writ at the Circuit Court, Juaso and claimed: (a) damages for wrongful dismissal; and (b) an order of perpetual injunction restraining the hospital authorities, their servants, agents and workmen from forcibly removing the plaintiff’s personal belongings from the nurses’ quarters. Until the date of her dismissal, the plaintiff was employed by the appellants (hereafter called the defendants) as a senior nurse-midwife. On the night of 17 January 1981 the scene was set for a calamity in the defendants’ hospital. The plaintiff was on night duty, assisted by a nurse, the first defendant witness, when at about 9 p.m. a pregnant woman called Abiba Busanga, the second defendant witness, came there to deliver. The first defendant ...