PREMPEH J.
This is an appeal from the decision of the Kpandu Local Court Division “1” given on the 9th June, 1961, in favour of the defendant-respondent herein.
By his amended claim, the plaintiff-appellant claimed against the respondent an order upon the respondent to show cause why he had refused to allow the respondent to redeem his property commonly called Anokpete land, which he pledged to the respondent for the sum of £G60, which sum he had tendered for the redemption of the land and which the respondent had refused to accept.
The short facts of the case are that by a document dated the 3rd June, 1954, the appellant obtained a loan of £G60 from the respondent which he promised to repay on the 31st December, 1954, and by way of security therefor, the appellant pledged to the respondent a portion of land known as the Anokpete land. It was a term of the said transaction that if the appellant failed to repay the amount at the fixed date, the respondent was at liberty to take possession…