<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>SMYLY, C.J.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The above is an appeal from the interlocutory ruling or decision of His Honour Mr. Justice Porter delivered on the 22nd August, 1921.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The claim in this action was for the recovery of possession of two parcels of land brought by the plaintiff against the first defendants (The West African Lighterage Company) alone. Pleadings were ordered and from the statement of the defence, after traversing the plaintiff&#x27;s claim to little to these lands, the first defendants based their title to possession on two leases dated respectively the 15th March, 1920,and 30th April, 1920, made between the said George Akwetey Sappor and others of the one part and the first defendants of the other part. The plaintiffs in their reply alleged that these two leases by the defendants Lessors could not give title to the defendants according to native customary law.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">On the 1st JUly,.1921, the Court recorded, on the request of counsel for both defendants, its decision that this action is triable by the Divis…</p>