AMEGAZO vs. KEMEVOR AND ANOTHER

By a lease made on 23 February 1952 between the Governor of the Gold Coast acting by the Acting Commissioner of Lands, on the one hand, and the plaintiff’s father (deceased) on the other part, a plot of land with a building thereon numbered 331, South Labadi Estate was leased to the plaintiff’s father for a term of 30 years commencing on 1 May 1949 at the yearly rate of twenty nine pounds eight shillings, payable in 12 equal instalments of two pounds, eight shillings on the first day of each month in advance during the continuance of the said term. The plaintiff’s father went into occupation of the house on the commencement of the lease and was later joined in the house by a tenant, being the defendant’s father who paid a monthly rent of five pounds to the plaintiff’s father. The latter moved to Frankadua, his hometown later where he stayed until his death. In view of the very cordial relationship between the two men when the plaintiff’s father left Accra he entrusted to t...