CHATLANI
V.
HAROUTUNIAN
ABBAN J.: The plaintiff herein is claiming the following reliefs:
“(1) ¢1,200.00 being damages for wrongful dismissal;
(2) ¢1,733.32 being leave salary due and owing by the defendant to the plaintiff; and (3) ¢2,320.00 being gratuity due and owing by the defendant to the plaintiff.”
All the parties are foreigners who have been living in this country for a considerable number of years. The defendant has been a general merchant, trading in all sorts of merchandise. He had a retail store in Accra and in 1959, he employed the plaintiff as a store-keeper in that store. In the course of time, the defendant promoted the plaintiff to the status of a manager, and by May 1962, the plaintiff was in full control of the defendant’s business in Ghana on a monthly salary of ¢200.00.
The defendant had other business interests in England and he was therefore partly living in Manchester. The plaintiff said he worked for nearly ten years without going on leave, even though by the terms of his employment he …