JUDGMENT
ADJEI-FRIMPONG JSC:
This appeal has emanated from a chieftaincy dispute over the installation of the Respondent/Appellant/Respondent (hereinafter “Respondent”) as chief of Kato near Berekum in the Bono Region. The Applicants/Respondents/Appellants (hereinafter Applicants) filed a petition against him and seven (7) others before the Berekum Traditional Council (BTC) to challenge his installation.
According to the facts alleged in the case, even though the Respondent and others were served with the petition, they failed to attend the hearing. The BTC then proceeded to conduct the trial without them. In the end, all the reliefs sought in the applicants’ petition were granted. The BTC ordered that the decision and orders made be served on the losing parties by substituted service. This was allegedly done. Key among the orders was that the Respondent shall not hold himself and the others shall not hold him out as chief of Kato.
In defiance of this order, so it was claimed, the Respond…