CHARLES LAWRENCE QUIST vs. AHMED DANAWI

BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC:- On 17/1/77 the defendants/appellants, The Danawis, hereinafter defendants, entered into an agreement with the plaintiff/respondents, Emmanuel Charles Quist, hereinafter plaintiff in respect of a plot of land. They and a third person Fisal Danawi also entered into a lease agreement in respect of an adjoining land this time with one E.C. Quist-Therson. They developed the two plots into commercial premises from where they conducted their business. Sometime later Nii Kwabena Bonnie, Osu Alata Mantse, brought an action against them in respect of the land granted by Quist Therson claiming that the land formed part of Osu Alata stool. The High Court, coram, Osei Hwere J (as he then was), declared title in respect of the other plot of land in the Osu Alata Mantse making Nii Kwabena Bonne the new landlord of the defendants in respect of the adjoining plot of land. I wish here to reiterate that the original lessors in the original transactions were Charles Quist (the p...