BARNES AND OTHERS vs. WIRESI XIV

Sowah J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. After hearing arguments of counsel, we dismissed the appeal and reserved our reasons; we now proceed to give those reasons. Though the events leading to the attachment proceedings being pursued against the respondent had been set down with sufficient clarity in the ruling appealed from, it is necessary to state some short facts for the proper appreciation of our reasons. On 24 November 1969, the chief bailiff of the Cape Coast High Court, in the company of policemen and a messenger of the court, endeavoured to execute an order of injunction decreed by the Ajumako Traditional Council upon the respondent at his residence at Odoben. The said order is short and may with profit, be reproduced in extenso, it reads: “ORDER OF THE COUNCIL Upon the motion and affidavit filed by the plaintiffs seeking for an order of injunction to be placed on Odoben Agona Royal Family stool property now in possession of the defendant in the suit herein, the Aj.....