KESSIE V. CHARMANT AND ANOTHER

ANNAN, JA.: The plaintiff claims “the sum of £G50,000 or 100,000 new cedis from the defendants jointly and severally for breach of a contract between the said plaintiff and the defendants contained in a document dated 2 December 1960.” The writ was filed on 21 June 1968. The plaintiff is a solicitor and barrister-at-law and has held office as an ambassador in Monrovia, Peking and Cairo. He was first appointed to the diplomatic service in August 1959. The first defendant is the managing director of the second defendants - a company registered in Ghana and engaged in the production of timber and sawn boards. The plaintiff’s statement of claim states inter alia:

“(3) In December 1960 the first defendant asked the plaintiff in his private capacity to approach the President of Liberia and other senior officials of the Department of Forestry to grant the defendant company a timber concession of about 3,000 square miles to enable them to operate in Liberia.

(4) In consideration for this and o…