ALHASSAN TONY ADAMS AND EKOW BENTIL V. CEMONIT GHANA LTD, BASSAM ZAKOUR AND OCCUPANTS/SQUARTTERS

AGYEMANG JA

In this appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Accra, dated 12th November 2012, the plaintiff/appellants (referred to hereafter as the plaintiffs), pray this court for an order setting aside the judgment of the High Court and thereafter, entry for judgment in their favour.

These are the matters that have given rise to the present appeal.

The first plaintiff is a Ghanaian ordinarily resident in Japan. The second plaintiff is his lawful representative in Ghana.

Sometime in 2006, the said representative (who is second plaintiff/appellant herein), having received information that the second defendant/respondent (referred to as the second defendant) had land to sell, went to see him at his office at Osu. The second defendant was at that time working as the Deputy Managing Director of the first defendant/respondent (referred to alternately as the first defendant, or the respondent), an asbestos manufacturing company, whose Managing Director had left Ghana for Lebanon in the …