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GRIFFITHS-RANDOLPH J.: In this case, the plaintiffs sued the defendants for an amount of ¢12,347.13 (twelve thousand three hundred and forty-seven cedis thirteen pesewas) as storage charges for fish kept at the slaughter-house of the plaintiffs’ meat products division at Tema at the request of the defendants. A former employee of the defendants having been called by them as a witness; and his examination-in-chief having been completed, he was being subjected to serious cross-examination, when the defendants’ counsel objected to the line of questioning adopted by the counsel for the plaintiffs, particularly to the following suggestion which was put to the witness: “I seriously put it to you that some time last year when the writ was pending you suggested to the plaintiffs’ first witness that if the plaintiff corporation gave you ¢2,000.00, you would give evidence in its favour?”
The said objection was as follows:
“I object to this question for the following reasons:
(1) It puts the chara…