BELGORE, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is a land dispute.The case looked ordinary but on further evidence evolving during the trial a new and fundamental dimension crept into it. The case was initiated by the appellant, Ma'aji Galadima, the son of Galadima Cino (deceased) claiming that a farmland which his late father cleared and later loaned to the respondents had not on demand been returned to him. It was before Area Court No. 1 in Zaria City. The thirteen defendants, now respondents denied any loan of the farmland and claimed that they inherited the land from their various parents. In his evidence in court the plaintiff claimed that he Mato, Kakumi Doki Kakumi, Dan Mallam Kakumi, Wada Kakumi Makarfi and Wada Makeri who were alive were neighbours on the land and that they cleared their portions of land at about the same time with Galadima Cino. The appellant's claim, in reality is that his father gave the disputed land to Sarkin Gwanki, Haruna, on loan so as to in t…