JUDGMENT
BAIDOO J.
The plaintiff-respondent sued the defendant-appellant in the Akim Manso District Court grade II claiming ¢388.00 as arrears of rent from November 1969 to November 1973, in respect of one room rented by the defendant in his house at Atiankam-Nkwanta. The plaintiff-respondent will hereafter be referred to simply as the plaintiff, and the defendant-appellant simply as the defendant. The rent payable was ¢8.00 per month and according to the plaintiff, the defendant who took possession of the room in September 1969, paid rents for only two and a half months and no more.
The defendant denied liability and testified that he was paying the monthly rent regularly until about two months before the action when the plaintiff decided to increase the rent to ¢9.00 a month so he refused to pay the increased amount and moved out from the plaintiff's premises. The defendant's first witness, a son of the defendant, gave evidence of a number of occasions when the plaintiff received from…