A. R. DUODU-SAKYIAMA V. TEMA DEVELOPMENT. CORPORATION

JUDGEMENT

APPAU, JSC. :

The Court of Appeal, on 6^th December 2012, upheld an appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Tema dated 24^th November 2010. Not satisfied with this decision of the Court of Appeal, the Plaintiff, who won in the trial High Court, has come before us on a further appeal for a reconsideration of his case. I re-call below the facts of the case as gathered from the evidence on record.

Facts of the case

The Plaintiff/respondent/appellant was an employee of the Tema Development Corporation, which is the Defendant/appellant/respondent herein. For purposes of brevity, he would simply be referred to as the ‘Appellant’ while the Defendant/appellant/respondent would assume the description ‘Respondent’.

Somewhere in the middle of 1986, the Appellant, while in the employment of the Respondent, was offered a 6.19 acre land belonging to his employer for farming purposes as an agricultural tenant. The letter that conveyed the offer, which the Appellant described as a lease in …