TAGOE
V.
MOBIL OIL (GH) LTD
JUDGEMENT
Quaye JA delivered the first judgment at the invitation of Aryeetey JA. The facts in this appeal per se, are not in controversy. The plaintiff-appellant (hereinafter referred to as the appellant) is one of a total number of fifteen children who survived their father Jonathan Teiko Ammah (deceased). The said father of the appellant and his siblings, in 1959 executed a lease of the disputed land herein in favour of the defendant-respondent (hereinafter referred to as the respondent) for a term of twenty years certain with an option for renewal for not more than two terms of five years each. The parties, upon the expiry of the initial twenty years exercised and exhausted the provisions for renewal. Accordingly, the leasehold agreement finally expired on 10 November 1989, after it had remained extant for a total of thirty years. At the expiration of the term, the appellant, speaking for himself, as head of the J T Ammah family and on behalf of the said family demanded vacant poss…