OLLENNU J.S.C.: This is an appeal by the defendants in each of the consolidated cases in the court below, from a judgment of Sowah J. delivered in favour of the plaintiffs in the said two consolidated cases. The facts in the cases are briefly as follows:
There is a family in Nyakrom known as Yego family; the said family has four sections. Until the year 1949, the four sections were administered together as a composite family, with an overall head over and above the sectional heads, and properties owned by the different sections were enjoyed in common. The defendants are respectively queenmother and head of one of the said four sections, their section is known as the Ampiakoko section; another section is known as the Apaa section. Differences arose between the defendants’ section on one hand and the remaining three sections on the other; this led, in 1949, to customary severance of the family ties between the defendants’ section from the rest. In consequence of this severance the defend…