AMOAKO ATTA IV AND OTHERS vs. NUAMAH

JUDGMENT OF AKUFO-ADDO J.S.C. The plaintiff (i.e. the respondent to this appeal) brought an action against the defendants, (the appellants before us) in the High Court, Accra, in which he claimed: “the sum of £G1,300 being as to £G800 money expended by the plaintiff in pursuance of a timber felling agreement dated the 14th October, 1960, made between the defendants of the one part and the plaintiff of the other part which agreement the defendants have broken and as to £G500 general damages for breach of the said agreement.” The second and third defendants are the Adikrofo of Emooso and Jejeti respectively in Akim Abuakwa and the owners of the land, the subject-matter of the plaintiff’s action. The first defendant is the Omanhene of Akim Abuakwa and the overlord of the land aforesaid. The plaintiff by his statement of claim averred as follows: “1. By an oral agreement made in or about August 1960 between the third defendant and the plaintiff the third defendant...