SOWAH J.A.
This is an appeal from the concurrent judgments of the District Magistrate’s Court and the High Court, Accra, both upholding the validity of a notice to quit given by the respondents to the appellants under section 17 (1)(h) of the Rent Act, 1963 (Act 220), and granting the respondents’ claim to possession of a shop occupied by the appellants.
Some time in 1958, upon an oral grant, the appellants took possession of one store in premises No. D 893/3, situate at Selwyn Market Street owned by the respondents at a monthly rent of N¢80.00 per month. About July 1959, the appellants applied to the rent assessment committee for an assessment of the premises and this was duly done. The monthly rent was reduced to N¢45.00 which thereafter became the standard rent of the store.
The appellants appeared to have enjoyed quiet possession until 12 January 1967, when they received the following notice:
“I the undersigned give you one (1) month’s notice from the date hereof on behalf of my clie…