PRINCE MOBADENLE OYEKAN & ORS V. ADISA WAHEED ABERUAGBA & ORS
(2023) JELR 112345 (SC)
Supreme Court
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SC. 146/2018
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15 Dec 2023
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Nigeria
Coram
JOHN INYANG OKORO, JSC
HELEN MORONKEJI OGUNWUMJIU, JSC
ADAMU JAURO, JSC
TIJIANI ABUBAKAR, JSC
EMMANUEL AKOMAYE AGIM, JSC
Appearances
A.A. OSARA, ESQ with JOSEPH OCHE, ESQ for the Appellants.
R.A. ALADESANMI, ESQ for the 1st and 2nd Respondents.
S.B. JOSEPH JNR., ESQ for the 3rd Respondent.
ADEWALE ADESAKAN, SAN with TOLUWA ODEKHE, ESQ for the 4th Respondent.
AFEEZ ABDULLAHI, ESQ, DD, MOJ, LAGOS STATE with E.R. AGWU (MRS), ESQ, ASST. DIRECTOR, LSMOJ; OLUWAYEMISI OSUNSANYA, ESQ ACSC, LSMOJ for 5th, 6th and 7th Respondents.
Akin Adesomoju Esq for the 1st and 2nd Respondents in SC/604/2018.
Jacob Ifere Esq for 1st and 2nd Respondents in SC/605/2018.
Judgement
<p><strong>JOHN INYANG OKORO, JSC (Delivering The Leading Judgement): </strong>This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Judicial Division In Appeal No. CA/L/647/2012 delivered on 12th January, 2018.</p><p>At the High Court of Lagos State, the 1st and and Respondents (as 2nd and 3rd Plaintiffs) took out a writ of summons filed on 21/4/1995 against these Appellants (as defendants) claiming the following reliefs.</p><ol><li><p><strong><em>Declaration that the 1st - 7th defendants are not members of the Esimikan family of Ilado-Odo and Inagbe.</em></strong></p></li><li><p><strong><em>Declaration that all that piece or parcel of land known as Ilado-Odo and Inagbe Island; are the property of the Esimikan family of Ilado-Odo and Inagbe, who are entitled to the title, general control and superintendence thereof</em></strong></p></li><li><p><strong><em>An injunction restraining the defendants, their agents, servants, privies assigns or otherwise howsoever from entering into, trespassing upon or in any other n1anner interfering with all that land known as Ilado-Odo and Inagbe Islands.</em></strong></p></li><li><p><strong><em>An in…</em></strong></p></li></ol>