MOHAMMED, JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment) : This is an interlocutory appeal against the ruling of the Anambra State High Court of Justice sitting at Onitsha, delivered by Chidozie Olike, J. on 23-9-93. The respondent who was the plaintiff at the court below in a representative capacitysued the appellants as defendants also in representative capacity and claimed in paragraph 18 of his statement of claim dated 16-12-81, the following reliefs:- “18. Whereof the plaintiff claims from the defendants as follows:-
A Declaration that the plaintiff as the head of Nwankwo
Okonkwo family as well as the representative head of Obolua Family in Amangwu (kindred) quarters of Ezi- Kwelle Nkwelle-Ogidi is entitled to inherit under Ogidi land forming part of his ancestral home (property) known and called Owoko Oruruide Land valued N200.00 (two hundred naira) lying, being and situate at Amangwuqu arter s o f Ezi- Kw elle O gid i in Idemili Local Government Area within the jurisdiction of this H…