ORJI OKOKO OKOKO UDA 1ST DEFENDANT/APPELLANT SUBSTITUTED BY ORDER OF COURT MADE ON 21/4/94 (FOR THEMSELVES AND ON BEHALF OF UMUGO MATRILINEAL FAMILY OF OZU ABAM) V. WILLIAM MONG UDO UDO PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS SUBSTITUTED BY ORDER OF COURT MADE ON 5/3/91 (FOR THEMSELVES AND AS REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE OF AMAELU VILLAGE OF ABAM)

AKPIROROH, JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of Ononuju, J. of the High Court of Umuahia Judicial Division, holden at Umuahia, delivered on the 30th day of March, 1987, in suit No. HU/52/71.

The plaintiffs’ claim as endorsed in their statement of claim is as follows:-

Declaration of title to all those pieces or parcels of land known as and called (1) Akwu-Eko (2) Iyi-Eruru (3) Egbu Anya-Iji

(4) Egbu-Abuo-Uturukpa (5) Koko-Obina, all of annual rental value of N10.00, situate at Amaelu village, Abam Clan, Ohafia Division within the judicial division of this Honourable Court.

N400.00 being general damages for trespass.

Perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, their workmen, agents and/or servants from further entry upon the said pieces or parcels of land or in any way interfering with the plaintiffs’ ownership and/or possession of same.” The case which was tried on the pleadings relates to five parcels of land known and called Akwu-Eko, Iyi-U…