CHIEF SAFELE NABOBO & ANOR V. CHIEF FATAI MUSA & ORS

UGOCHUKWU ANTHONY OGAKWU, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The disputation in this appeal is in respect of the landed property situate at New Alaguntan Village, Ikota, Lagos State. The case of the Appellants who were the Claimants at the Lower Court is that consequent upon the demolition of Old Alaguntan Village by the Lagos State Government, it was agreed that every owner of a plot of land at the Old Alaguntan Village will be allotted two plots of land at the New Alaguntan Village. The Appellants claim that rather than allot them a total of four plots at the New Alaguntan Village, they were allotted three plots and that the Respondents further trespassed into two of the said three plots and destroyed the blocks that they had there.

The Respondents case is a denial that it was agreed that two plots of land will be allotted to every plot owner at the New Alaguntan Village. They asserted that the Appellants who had two plots at the Old Alaguntan Village were allotted two plots a…