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ADDY
V.
IRANI

(1988) JELR 67291 (HC)

High Court 21 Oct 1988 Ghana
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- The plaintiff is seeking two sums of money, ¢2 million and US$3 million, or alternatively ¢465 million, from the defendant. - The plaintiff claims that he worked for the defendant's company for seventeen years and had a close relationship

Case Details

Judges:BROBBEY J.
Counsel:J. F. S. HANSEN FOR THE PLAINTIFF; J. K. AGYEMANG FOR THE DEFENDANT.
Other Citations:[1976] 2 GLR 30

JUDGMENT

BROBBEY J.

This is an action by the plaintiff for two sums being ¢2 million and US$3 million. In the alternative he claims ¢465 million. The action is grounded on simple contract for money had and received but not returned or refunded.

The plaintiff’s case is that he worked for about seventeen years, commencing from about 1969 to June 1986, in a company called Irani Brothers and Others. In that company, the plaintiff worked variously as a canvasser, sales manager and factory manager. The defendant is an executive chairman of that company. The plaintiff averred that even before he started working for the company he had known the defendant personally.

While working for the company, he and the defendant developed quite an intimate and well-nigh confidential relationship. Consequent upon this special relationship, the defendant made liberal allocations of flour to the plaintiff to sell. It is part of the case of the plaintiff that the defendant personally directed and indeed dictated…

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