1. TAYLOR WOODROW NIGERIA LIMITED & ORS V. H.R.M OBA ABDUL FATAI AREMU AROMIRE (THE OJORA OF IJORA LAND) & PRINCE M. OLAYIWOLA OLUWA (FOR AND ON BEHALF OF OJORA ROYAL FAMILY & COUNCIL)

OBANDE FESTUS OGBUINYA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal interrogates the correctness of the decision of the High Court of Lagos State (hereinafter addressed as “the lower Court”), coram judice: S. A. Onigbanjo, J., in Suit No. LD/8671/LMW/2019, delivered on 10th March, 2020. Before the lower Court, the appellants and the respondents were the claimants/respondent and defendants/ applicants respectively. 

The facts of the case, which transformed into the appeal, are amenable to brevity and simplicity. The land in dispute is a magnet for litigation. This appeal is an offspring of one of them. By a deed, dated 14th July, 1945, late Kolapo Belugbade Savage bought a legion of parcels of land, situate in Iganmu, from Oladipo Moore. Mr. K.B. Savage leased part of it to the first appellant and Nigerian Properties Company Limited in 1949 and 1947 respectively. In 1971, the Nigerian Properties Company Limited, in liquidation, subleased its unexpired interest in its own parce…