PROMEXPORT INTERNATIONAL (GHANA) LTD. vs. FIRST GHANA BUILDING SOCIETY

JUDGMENT OF LAMPTEY J.A. Before the High Court, Accra, the First Ghana Building Society issued a writ of summons against the defendants, Promexport International (Ghana) Ltd, and claimed the following reliefs: “(i) An order for recovery of possession of the first floor of house No. D. 653/4, Kojo Thompson Road, Accra occupied by the defendants. (ii) Mesne profits from August 1980 to the date of judgment. (iii) Such further order or orders as to the court might seem just.” The plaintiff company claimed ownership of the said property in which the defendant company is a tenant. The action was mounted against the defendant company because according to the plaintiff company, from the date that it purchased the premises the defendant company had not paid any rents and indeed refuses to pay any rents to it as the new landlord. The defendant company refused to and continues to refuse to attorn tenant to the plaintiff company. The defendant company resisted the claim of the pl...