CHARLES L. QUIST V. AHMED DANAWI

KANYOKE, J.A.

This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Accra, dated the 3rd day of June 2010. The facts giving rise to this appeal are as follows: The plaintiff/respondent (hereinafter referred to as the Respondent) has at all material times been the owner of a certain piece of land at Osu Accra. There is another adjoining plot of land situate and lying to the west of the respondent’s property belonging to one E.C. Quist-Therson and family. By an indenture of a lease dated 17th January, 1977, the respondent as lessor leased his said property to the defendant/appellant (hereinafter referred to as the appellant) and his late brother for a term of 50 years. The appellant and his said brother also took a lease of the adjoining plot owned by Mr. Quist-Therson and family. They then constructed a commercial building on the Quist-Therson family’s property and a dwelling house on the respondent’s property. It is however the case of the respondent that the appellant’s commercial…