DR. E. A. ADEBO V. SAKI ESTATES LIMITED & ANOR.

M. E. OGUNDARE, J.S.C (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The plaintiff who is the Appellant now before us bought a piece or parcel of land from one Alhaji Alii Isiba who executed a deed of conveyance in his favour. This was in 1977. The land in dispute is the land sold by Alhaji Isibato the Plaintiff and was said to form part of the land Alhaji Isiba bought from Bamgbola Amao. Bamgbola Amao for his part had bought from the Owodina family a large piece of land part of which he sold to Alhaji Isiba. On entering into possession the family of Bamgbola Amao disturbed the Plaintiff on the land claiming that the land was theirs and threatening to quit the Plaintiff from the land. The Plaintiff made his peace with the Bamgbola Amao family by repurchasing the land from them for the sum of N6,000.00. The family issued him with a receipt dated 15th December 1977 tendered in evidence as Exhibit 3 at the hearing of the action leading to this appeal. On the Plaintiff paying the purchase money, the …