LADIPO OJO ABIODUN OMODELE OJO MRS. OLAWUMI OLAJIDE (NEE OJO) MISS SHADE OJO MRS. JOKOTADE BAKARE MISS BISI OJO TITI OJO (FOR THEMSELVES AND THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ESTATE OF THE LATE A. H. OJO -DECEASED) V. REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF THE CHURCH OF THE LORD (ALADURA) YABA MR. SHOLA KALESANWO

ADEREMI, JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): By the endorsementin paragraph 22 of the second further amended statement of claim filed on 15/6/98, the appellants who were the plaintiffs in the lower court (High Court of Lagos State holden at Ikeja (Coram Adeyinka J.). Claimed from the respondents/cross-appellants who were the defendants before that court the following reliefs.

A declaration that the judgment of the Registrar of Land in Title No. MO 10649 dated 3/12/81 is null and void and is not binding on the plaintiffs.

A declaration that the Certificate of occupancy dated 18th October 1985 and registered as No. 26 at Page 26 in volume 1985 of the Register of Deeds, Lagos State is null and void and of no effect whatsoever. N500,000.00 special and general damages for trespass committed by the defendants upon the plaintiffs’ house and landed property, situate at and known as 25, McEwen Street, Yaba, Lagos which is more particularly shown and delineated edged blue and marked plot 4 in p…