APALOO J.S.C.
This case has some unusual features and in order to appreciate the judgment from which this appeal has been brought, it is necessary to relate the facts on which it is grounded.
The plaintiff who is a minister of religion, was at some time prior to January 1958, the owner of a house described as No. 98/5 Fanofa, Accra. The exact nature of the title which he had to the land on which the building stands is far from clear. The evidence shows that an unspecified title to a large plot of land on which the house in dispute is situate, is vested in an entity known as the Akwapim Union. It would seem that the latter promised to grant the plaintiff a lease of this land and permitted him to enter into possession and erect a building thereon. The evidence is imprecise as to when the building was erected, but it is clear that it must have been some time before January 1958, because at that date, the house was in the occupation of a Mr. Constodontis to whom the plaintiff had let it at …