ADEKEYE JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court of Anambra State sitting at Nnewi
Judicial Division delivered on the 17th ofSeptember, 1998. The background history of the case is that the appellants as plaintiffs in suit No. HN/22/76 instituted an action in a representative capacity against the respondents who were the defendants. The appellants claimed against the respondents as follows: 1. Declaration of title to the piece or parcel of land known and called ‘Ogwugwu Ahaba’situate at Umunkwoejim quarters,
Egbema village, Ozubulu, more particularly delineated and verged pink on the plaintiffs’ survey plan No. MEC/950/76 dated the 28th of October, 1976 filed with the statement of claim. 2. N600 (six hundred naira) damages for the trespass complained against. 3. Perpetual injunction to restrain the defendants, their agents successors-in-title and assigns from further acts of trespass on the said ‘Ogwugwu Ahaba’ land verged pink on the…