<p><strong>EDWARD WIREDU J.</strong></p><p>On or about 22 May 1973, the plaintiffs issued out of this court a writ of summons against the defendants with the following indorsement:</p><p>“¢20,000 damages for libel published of an concerning their grand and great-grandparent one Kai Nka now deceased which said libel is defamatory of the plaintiffs and appeared in a pamphlet entitled ‘Observance of Funeral Rites of the late Otublohum Chiefs and Elders’ as follows: ‘However, Kai Nka claimed that, being a queenmother, her son was the rightful heir and one night in December 1930, she burgled the stoolroom, broke the door and stole the stool, carrying if off to Ankra’s house.”</p><p>On September 5 that same year a five-paragraph statement of claim on behalf of the plaintiffs was filed which also read:</p><p>“(1) the first and the third plaintiffs are grandchildren of the late Kai Nka, deceased, stool mother of Otuoblohum, and direct descendants of Otu Brafo the founder of Otublohum. The second plaintiff is the daughter of the first plain…</p>