AKUFO-ADDO J.S.C. The plaintiffs as "joint successors" of one Kwasi Baah, brought an action in the New Juaben Local Court against the defendant, the Nsenifuorhene of Koforidua, claiming a declaration that certain properties enumerated in the writ of summons were the self-acquired properties of the said Kwasi Baah and not of the Nsenifuor stool of New Juaben of which the defendant was the occupant, and that they, the plaintiffs, were entitled to the possession of these properties.
The brief background history to this litigation is as follows: The Nsenifuor stool family is a large family in New Juaben and owns a stool the occupant of which is one of the principal elders of the paramount stool of New Juaben. This family has its seat at Koforidua which is also the seat of the paramount stool, and has branches at Effiduasi and Gyegyeti. The Effiduasi branch calls itself the Agona family of Effiduasi and it is the branch to which the plaintiffs and the late Kwasi Baah aforesaid belong Kwasi …