<p>THOMAS, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an interlocutory appeal against the ruling of Ugep High Court of Justice, Cross River State in suit No. HUG/MISC/10/2003 delivered on 14th July, 2003. </p><p> The present appellant was the plaintiff/applicant at the lower court in which he filed a motion on notice for:</p><p> &quot;An order of interlocutory injunction restraining the defendant/respondent from whether by himself, his servants, workmen, agents and assigns or otherwise howsoever from entering or doing anything inconsistent with the rights of the plaintiff/applicant on the parcel of farmland known and called Kepontamse amon vema abo Mbang ofor and bounded by the parcels of land of Obal Enang Effiom, late Mbang-Ofem, Usang Egu Edet and Ikoi Mbang and equally demarcated by &quot;yetete&quot; trees, until the determination of the substantive suit.&quot; (italics mine)</p><p> The above application for reliefs and the supporting 16 paragraphs affidavit was filed, and later, a reply to the counter-affidavit was…</p>