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CHAHIN & SONS
V.
EPOPE PRINTING PRESS

(1963) JELR 86054 (SC)

Supreme Court 20 Feb 1963 Ghana
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Judges:SARKODEE-ADDO, CRABBE AND BLAY JJ.S.C.
Counsel:H.V.A. Franklin for the appellants. Dr. de Graft-Johnson (with him Tsegah) for the respondents.
Other Citations:[1963] 1 GLR

JUDGEMENT

BLAY J.S.C.

The appellants in this appeal were sued by the respondents herein in the High Court, Accra, for the sum of £G4,507 10s. Being damages suffered as a result of wrongful ejectment from one of the rooms of house No. D.631/2, Horse Road, Accra.

The case for the respondents in the court below may be thus briefly stated. On the 30th May, 1959, they, the respondents, leased one room of house No. D.631/2, Horse Road, Accra, from the Heal Press, Ltd., who it appears were tenants of the whole house, and the rent agreed upon for the one room was £G13 per month. They subsequently installed and fixed in that room heavy and delicate printing machines and carried on the business of printers therein, until the 13th May, 1961, when the appellants went into the room together with a bailiff of the High Court and a number of labourers and started to remove and did remove all the machines and other accessories of the respondents from the said room, which they eventually placed on the pa…

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