KANYOKE, J.A.
This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Accra, dated the 3rd day of June 2010. The facts giving rise to this appeal are as follows: The plaintiff/respondent (hereinafter referred to as the Respondent) has at all material times been the owner of a certain piece of land at Osu Accra. There is another adjoining plot of land situate and lying to the west of the respondent’s property belonging to one E.C. Quist-Therson and family. By an indenture of a lease dated 17th January, 1977, the respondent as lessor leased his said property to the defendant/appellant (hereinafter referred to as the appellant) and his late brother for a term of 50 years. The appellant and his said brother also took a lease of the adjoining plot owned by Mr. Quist-Therson and family. They then constructed a commercial building on the Quist-Therson family’s property and a dwelling house on the respondent’s property. It is however the case of the respondent that the appellant’s commercial…