J AMES JACKSON SUBSTITUTED .FOR CHIEF KWAMINA SAKYIAMA VRS  J. M. COOKE This is an appeal from the decision of the West African Court of Appeal pronounced on the 9th May, 1933,(1) deciding that the action, which had been commenced in a Native Tribunal, was not properly before such tribunal and that its judgment and all subsequent proceedings amounted to a nullity but awarding the respondent costs on appeal and in the Courts below.