JUDGMENT
WILSON C.J.
The amended claim in this case was for £405, being the balance of the amount stated to be due by the defendant to the plaintiff as the rent of certain premises at No. D514/3, Derby Avenue, Accra, up to the end of April, 1954. No evidence was taken at the trial as the facts of the case were not in dispute and the trial resolved itself into a legal argument on a single issue. The defendant became the plaintiff's tenant of the premises under a lease dated October 27, 1944, for the term of fifteen years at an annual rental of £240 0s. 0d. In 1952 the plaintiff brought the defendant before the Accra Rent Assessment Committee on an application under section 7 (1) of the Rent Control Ordinance for reassessment of the rent and an order was made increasing the monthly rent from £20 per mensem to £45 per mensem as from October 1, 1952. The defendant did not appeal and paid the increased rent for about a year and then wrote denying his liability to pay the increased rent and …