The Appellant and the Respondents entered into a contract for supply of timber. The Appellant paid Respondents a certain amount of money and in consideration thereof the Respondents would supply him a specified amount of timber. One of the terms of the contract was that the Respondents had consented for their house to be sold in case they failed to honour the contract. When the contract was breached the Appellant filed a claim in the District Land and Housing Tribunal apparently because the contract involved a mortgage. The Respondents raised a preliminary objection on a point of law that the said Tribunal had no jurisdiction to entertain the dispute as it was based on contract for the supply of timber but not on a house or land. The Tribunal dismissed the claim with costs for want of jurisdiction. The Appellant was aggrieved and appealed to the High Court. The main issue that the High Court addressed was whether or not the Tribunal had jurisdiction to entertain them claim.