TORKORNOO, J. A:
The Plaintiff/Appellant is one of several artisans and tradesmen who were plying their trade on the fringes of the St Joseph Roman Catholic Junior Secondary School compound in Suame, Kumasi, a place well known for industrial activity. With time, the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly and the Parents Teacher Association of the school complained about the effect of commercial activity on the safety and security of the children.
According to the Appellant’s case, the tradesmen formed a ‘loose union’ with himself as chairman and the first Defendant/Respondent as secretary. They petitioned the Assembly and the school not to be removed from the grounds of the school. In 1998, they entered into an agreement with the school which allowed them to build permanent trading places around the school. They were first to build a wall around the school. Each tradesman was allocated the space behind the part of the wall where they plied their business in a makeshift manner before the decision …