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HAYATOU ZAPHANIAH V. ALLEN GARBA & ANOR

(2019) JELR 87297 (CA)

Court of Appeal  •  CA/YL/34/2019  •  8 Dec 2019  •  Nigeria

Coram
CHIDI NWAOMA UWA, JCA JAMES SHEHU ABIRIYI, JCA ABDULLAHI MAHMUD BAYERO, JCA

Judgement

ABDULLAHI M. BAYERO, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This Appeal originated from Zangra Area Court in Suit number CV/3/2016 wherein the Appellant as Plaintiff before the trial court complained before the court that the 1st Respondent met him and asked him to give him a portion of a land which he did on the condition that he will return it when the Appellant requests. That the 1st Respondent brought the 2nd Respondent and gave him a portion of the land to plough. That the Appellant confronted the 2nd Respondent without recourse to the 1st Respondent and told him to vacate the land when the Appellant’s son Joseph who owns the land returned. The Appellant further claims that when his son Joseph returns, the 2nd Respondent on the instructions of the 1st Respondent refused to vacate the land; as such the Appellant sued the Respondents as 1st and 2nd Defendants respectively before the trial court to recover the farmlands from them. The Appellant called four (4) witnesses, while the 1…

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