ADUMUA-BOSSMAN J.S.C.
This appeal is against a decision of the High Court, Accra, (Charles, J.) which dismissed the application of the applicants (the appellants in this court) for an order of certiorari to bring up to be quashed certain proceedings and orders made therein by the senior district magistrate, Accra, in relation to rent assessment orders made by the Accra Rent Assessment Committee acting under the Rent Control Ordinance (No. 2 of 1952). The learned judge before proceeding to deal with the questions of law involved in the application prior to his decision dismissing the application, set out the facts on which the application was based, and it seems necessary as well as convenient to adopt his statement of the facts, as follows:
The applicants are six Indian firms trading in Accra and they were tenants of Sobhy Baksmaty (hereinafter called the landlord) in respect of various premises owned by Sobhy Baksmaty. In 1952 there was an application by Lokumal and Sons (one of the I…