JUDGEMENT
Owusu J. The plaintiff’s claim is for the specific performance of an oral agreement for the assignment by the defendant to the plaintiff of all that piece of land lying in the North Chapel Hill Estate at Takoradi and bounded on the north by a road, on the east by plot No. 110, and on the west by plot No. 107 together with uncompleted premises thereon at a value of ¢N4,000.00.
The defendant was formerly in the employment of the Ghana National Trading Corporation hereafter called G.N.T.C. as a store-keeper. In pursuance of an oral agreement made during the month of January 1968, the amount of N¢4,000.00 was to be paid to the district manager of the G.N.T.C. in satisfaction of a debt due and owing by the defendant to the G.N.T.C. On or about 18 January 1968, the plaintiff made an initial payment of N¢2,000.00 to the district manager of the said corporation in the presence of the defendant and other officers of the said corporation, and the assignment was to be completed on the fu…