OFORI ATTAH II AND ANOTHER vs. MENSAH

Native Law and Custom-Stool land-Sub-stool created by paramount stool and vested with rights in land-Interest of paramount stool in land thus vested. Native Courts-Native law and custom-Representation--State land-Persons competent to represent a state. Land-Stool land-Powers of local authorities in connection with stool lands -Title to stool lands. In this action for the recovery of land by an Odikro, the second plaintiff, on behalf of his stool, the Paramount Chief of the state to which the stool belonged had joined the action as co-plaintiff. He, the first plaintiff, supporting the second plaintiff's claim, asserted that the land the subject of the dispute was land within the state of which he was the head and that the state, having created the stool within it, had an interest in the land concerned and was thus an interested party to the dispute. The Native Court, before which the action had been com¬menced, rejected the plaintiffs' claims not, apparently, on their merits but on ....