DON BEN MING vs. ADAMS ADDY

JUDGMENT BY LAWRENCE L. MENSAH, J.A. This is an appeal launched by the Plaintiff/Appellant (who will be referred in this judgment as the Plaintiff) against the judgment of the High Court, Accra dated the 4th of April 2019 in favour of the Defendant/Respondent (who will be referred to as the Defendant). This appeal is about a Chinese national who is the Plaintiff entering into a barter agreement with a Ghanaian pure water producer to exchange a number of Plaintiff’s pure water manufacturing machines with a family land belonging to the Defendant. This old way of exchanging articles of value which is the hall-mark of a barter trade however went the wrong way leading the Plaintiff to run to court in attempt to vindicate his rights at the court below. Case of the Plaintiff: In or about February 2009, the Plaintiff a Chinese national aforesaid, entered into a business barter transaction in which he Plaintiff gave a number of his pure water making machines to the Defendant. I.....