JUDGMENT
COUSSEY P.
This is an appeal, by the co-defendant only, from a judgment of the Land Court, Cape Coast, confirming on appeal a judgment of the Native Court “B" of Asin Atandanso in an action in which the Native Court found against the co-defendant, who had intervened in the suit, that the plaintiff was the owner of the Benda land in dispute (referred to in the writ of summons and delineated on the plan) and against the original defendant that he was liable to pay tribute to the plaintiff for the occupation of cocoa farms on the plaintiff's said land.
The appeal was filed on questions of law and fact, but we intimated to Mr Awoonor-Williams, counsel for the co-defendant, that we could find no reason to disturb the findings of fact of the trial Native Court. Mr Awoonor-Williams therefore confined his argument to grounds (a), (b) and (c) of the appeal. These raise the question whether the Native Trial Court had jurisdiction and was competent to hear the suit. If the trial Native Co…