JOHN INYANG OKORO, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the Judgment of the Lagos State High Court in Suit No. TD/1200/94 delivered by A. O. Williams, J. on 13th February, 2004. The Appellants who were Plaintiffs at the court below, had claimed against the Respondent herein as follows: -
"(a) A declaration of title to all the portions of land known as No.55/57, Ipaja Road, and more particularly described as portion marked "B" in Survey Plan No. SW/L/1145/IB, measuring 6,747.188 sq. meters as Ebenezer Bankole Beckley's family property,
(b) A declaration that any purported sale, if any to the Defendant is null and void and of no effect whatsoever,
(c) An injunction restraining the Defendant, h is servants, agents or privies from remaining or laying claim to the said parcel of family land and;
(d) Cost".
The defendant filed a defence and counter claim to the action. At the trial, the 1st Appellant told the court that the land in dispute belongs to her haviā¦