AMPIAH J.
On 28 September 1979, the plaintiff-respondent herein filed a writ of summons claiming (a) a declaration that the appointment of the first defendant, Peter Yaw Ansah, as the Yamfohene without the knowledge of the plaintiff is null and void; and (b) an order restraining the first defendant from being sworn in and acting as Yamfohene. This writ which was unaccompanied by a statement of claim was served on the first and third defendants on the same date, i.e. 28 September 1979. It does not appear that the second defendant was ever served though on 4 October 1979 an appearance under protest was entered for and on behalf of all the defendants.
Meanwhile, on 3 October 1979, the plaintiff-respondent herein had filed and moved an ex parte motionfor an order of interim injunction against the defendant-applicants herein restraining “the first defendant from acting in any way as the Yamfohene and the second and third defendants from doing anything that will promote the proclamation of th…