OKWAN AND OTHERS vs. AMANKWA

JUDGMENT OF OKUNOR J. On 14 November 1979, the plaintiff in this case sealed a writ in this court directed against the defendants herein indorsed as: “(a) The plaintiff as Chief of Brako and of the Kona family of Brako claims against the defendants jointly and severally, an order for accounts of all moneys collected by the defendants from the sale of palm trees and from cocoa abusa tenants on Kona family lands in the Central Region which moneys the defendants have refused or neglected to account to the plaintiff after repeated demands. (b) An order for perpetual injunction against the defendants, their servants or their agents from any further interference with the collection of moneys aforesaid.” The plaintiff filed on the same day, his statement of claim, the relevant portions of which, were formulated in the following terms: “(1) the plaintiff is the Chief of Brako near Breman-Asikuma in the Central Region and also the Akyempenhene of Breman-Asikuma Traditional Area. (...