ALHAJI USMAN SHARU BABAN-LUNGU & ANOR V. ALHAJI AHMED ABUBAKAR ZAREWA & ORS
(2013) JELR 35801 (CA)
Court of Appeal
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CA/K/259/2011
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22 Mar 2013
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Nigeria
Coram
DALHATU ADAMU JCA
ITA GEORGE MBABA JCA
HABEEB ADEWALE OLUMUYIWA ABIRU JCA
Appearances
Mr. Okechukwu Nwaeze For the Appellant.
Mr. Yusuf Ammani for the 1st Respondent.
No appearance for the 2nd and 3rd Respondents.
Judgement
<p><strong>HABEEB ADEWALE OLUMUYIWA ABIRU, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment):</strong> This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court of Kano State in Suit No K/113/2005 delivered by Honorable Justice A. T. Badamasi on the 28th of June, 2011. By an amended Writ of Summons dated and filed on the 1st of June, 2005, the first Respondent, as plaintiff, commenced an action in the High Court of Kano State in Suit No K/113/2005 against the two Appellants and the second and third Respondents, as the first to fourth defendants, praying, inter alia, for a declaratory order that he was the rightful holder of a right of occupancy over a parcel of land situate lying and being at Trade Fair Ground, Tarauni District of Tarauni Local Government of Kano State and more particularly delineated on a, survey plan approved by the Surveyor General of Kano State dated the 11th July, 1999, as well as for special, general and aggravated damages for trespass to the said land, damages for continuing trespass and inβ¦</p>