<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><u>JUDGEMENT</u></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Mr. L. M. D. DE SILVA.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is an appeal by the defendant against a judgment of the West African Court of Appeal of January 5, 1952, which dismissed an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the Gold Coast which granted to the plaintiff, the present respondent, a declaration of title to a tract of land and £100 damages for trespass. The parties are litigating on behalf of their respective stools, the plaintiff-respondent being the Ohene (Divisional Chief) of Assin Bisiasi and the defendant-appellant being the Ohene of Koshea. They are both substituted parties, the original parties having been the Ohenes before them. The land in dispute is shown upon a plan which is an exhibit, and is approximately 7 miles from North to South and of width varying from 4 to 2 miles from East to West.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">On this appeal the appellant does not seek to have the award of damages set aside. It is sufficient for the purposes of this appeal to say that the land to which it relates is not within the …</p>