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BADU
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ABABIO

(1967) JELR 67348 (HC)

High Court 9 Jan 1967 Ghana
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- The plaintiff is claiming arrears of customary rent from the defendant for a piece of land in Bomaa, Brong-Ahafo. - The claim is based on a customary agreement made in 1924 between the plaintiff's predecessor and the defendant's predecess

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Judges:BAIDOO J.
Counsel:I. E. OSEI BONSU FOR THE PLAINTIFF; P.D. ANIN FOR THE DEFENDANT.

BAIDOO J.

The plaintiff‘s claim against the defendant as it appears on the specially endorsed writ of summons is as follows:

“The plaintiff’s claim against the defendant is for the amount of £G600 or ¢1,440.00 being arrears of customary rent owing from the defendant, as the head and agent of the people living on all that piece or parcel of land situate lying and being at Bomaa in the Dormaa Traditional Area in Brong-Ahafo known as Brosankro lands to the plaintiff as the occupant of the paramount stool of Dormaa to which the said land

¢ belongs; which customary rent, at the rate of ; £G100 or

240.00 per annum is payable in respect of the aforesaid land by the defendant to the plaintiff under a customary agreement made between the plaintiff’s predecessor in title and the defendant’s predecessor in title in 1924 whereby the said land is occupied by the defendant and his people as tenants from year to year of the plaintiff together with interest on the said amount at the rate of five per cent…

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