CHIEF AUGUSTINE ASADE ADAGUNJA & ORS V. OBA SOLOMON ADEBIYI ISIYEMI & ORS
(2018) JELR 39502 (CA)
Court of Appeal
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CA/IB/42/2014
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22 Feb 2018
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Nigeria
Coram
MODUPE FASANMI JCA;
HARUNA SIMON TSAMMANI JCA;
NONYEREM OKORONKWO JCA;
Appearances
T.A. Olatunji For Appellant
O.K. Awowole For Respondent
Judgement
<p>MODUPE FASANMI, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Ogun State High Court of Justice in Suit No. HCT/86/2008 delivered on the 3rd of July 2013.</p><p>By the Amended Statement of Claim at pages 85-88 paragraph 32, of the record of appeal, Respondents as Claimants at the High Court claimed against the Appellants as Defendants as follows:</p><p>1. A DECLARATION that the Claimants are entitled to the grant of statutory right of occupancy to all that piece or parcel of land lying, being and situate at Atan-Ota Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government area of Ogun State as shown in survey Plan No.AKN/OG/007/LD/2009.</p><p>2. AN ORDER of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendants by themselves, their agents and privies from further trespassing on the Claimants family land.</p><p>3. A sum of One Million general damages for trespass.</p><p>4. Possession of the said land.</p><p>The brief facts of the Respondents case are that the Respondents claimed to be the rightful owner of the land in di…</p>