TWUMASI J.
The first plaintiff in this case is the occupant of the paramount stool of Lower Dixcove and the second and third plaintiffs are his sub-chiefs. The first defendant is the occupant of the paramount stool of Upper Dixcove. There has been a prodigious and exacting land litigation between the occupants of these two paramount stools over the years. The latest facet of this protracted land litigation came before my learned and noble brother Andoh J. (as he then was) and terminated in favour of the first defendant who was then declared owner of the land, the subject-matter of the suit.
An unpleasant repercussion of the plaintiffs’ unsuccessful claim to the disputed land was an order that the plaintiffs and their subjects attorn tenant to the occupant of the stool of Upper Dixcove as the overlord of the whole span of land inhabited by Lower Dixcove. Presently, an appeal filed by the plaintiffs is pending before the Court of Appeal and they now supplicate for an order to stay executi…