<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><u>JUDGMENT</u></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>BAIDOO J</strong>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The plaintiff-respondent sued the defendant-appellant in the Akim Manso District Court grade II claiming ¢388.00 as arrears of rent from November 1969 to November 1973, in respect of one room rented by the defendant in his house at Atiankam-Nkwanta. The plaintiff-respondent will hereafter be referred to simply as the plaintiff, and the defendant-appellant simply as the defendant. The rent payable was ¢8.00 per month and according to the plaintiff, the defendant who took possession of the room in September 1969, paid rents for only two and a half months and no more.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The defendant denied liability and testified that he was paying the monthly rent regularly until about two months before the action when the plaintiff decided to increase the rent to ¢9.00 a month so he refused to pay the increased amount and moved out from the plaintiff&#x27;s premises. The defendant&#x27;s first witness, a son of the defendant, gave evidence of a number of occasions when the plaintiff received from…</p>