JUDGMENT
OLLENNU, JSC
The plaintiffs are holders of a concession known as the Amama North Timber Concession under a concession lease dated the 11th December, 1957, validated on the 8th March, 1960; the certificate of validity in respect of the same is registered as No. 589/1960 in the Deeds Registry. The said concession was granted to the plaintiffs jointly by the stools of Susuanso and Nkwanta. The defendant entered upon portion of the land subject of the said concession, felled timber thereon and exercised other acts of possession thereon; he did so under and by virtue of timber felling rights granted to him on the 17th June, 1959, jointly by three stools, namely, the Contragesu (Abesim) stool (the co-defendant's stool), the Susuanso stool and the Nkwanta stool.
The area over which the rights were granted was the subject-matter of litigation in a transferred suit No. 6/54 in the Land Court, between the Abesim stool on the one hand and Susuanso and Nkwanta stools on the other. The said …