CHARLES CRABBE J.: Pursuant to leave granted by the court, the applicants, Nana Kwabena Buadee and Nana Kwamina Faibill III, asked for an order of prohibition directed to the judicial committee of the Western Regional House of Chiefs to restrain that house from hearing and determining an appeal purported to have been lodged by one Effua Nsiaso of Mbease-Nsuta.
In an affidavit of the 6 October 1973, sworn to by Nana Kwabena Buadee on behalf of himself as the first applicant and Nana Kwamina Faibill III, the second applicant, he had deposed that they were the respondents in an appeal before the Western Regional House of Chiefs in an action in which the appellants were Nana Kojo Armah and Nana Effua Nsiaso. That appeal was filed before the house on 11 December 1971.
The notice of appeal which had started that appeal was signed by Nana Kojo Armah. By a document dated 1 August 1972, Nana Kojo Armah discontinued that appeal. When on or about 24 August 1973, the appeal was formally called befo…