<p><strong>OBIETONBARA DANIEL-KALIO, JCA</strong> (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is over the ownership of land. At the trial stage, it was heard and determined by the Ogun State High Court. The case commenced in 1998. Judgment was delivered in 2005. From what can be pieced together from the pleadings of both parties in the court below, the applicant&#x27;s vendors and the respondent are of a common ancestry, or put more accurately, identify a common denominator in Bakare Mogaji Sanusi and his father identified by the respondent simply as Sanusi, but by the appellant as Agbabiaka Sanusi. </p><p> The respondent&#x27;s account as gathered from his amended statement of claim at page 63-66 of the record, is that the land originally belonged to Lagun son of Omo Oba Ijasi who first settled on the land. Lagun was from Ijasi in ljebu-Ode in Ogun State. He had three children, Solu, Oguntola and Disu who inherited the land at his death. Ogunsola one of Lagun&#x27;s children aforementioned, had two children namely Sadiku …</p>