AHMAD V. AFRIYIE AND OTHERS

APALOO J.

In this action, the plaintiff claims a declaration of title to a cocoa farm said to be situate at a place called Nyebiammoawo on Keniago stool land, damages for trespass and an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants from dealing with the said farm.

The plaintiff, who I should judge to be in his late sixties is a native of Domi, Keniago. He is educated and between 1925-1950 lived away from home. He must have been employed in some sort of clerical job either at Bekwai or Kumasi. The Abotendomhene of Keniago, Kwame Yamoah, said he returned home with a deficit and settled down to making farms. I am not able from the evidence to form anything like a reliable picture of Keniago. About one thing, however, I am certain, namely, educated persons are a rarity. In fact Nana Yamoah said, “We have no clerks in Keniago.” I think that is a little exaggerated but it is plain to my mind that educated persons are extremely hard to come by in that town.

The plaintiff is somehow …