ABUBAKAR
V.
GAMA
OKUNOLA, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Kano State Sharia Court of Appeal holden in Kano delivered on 30-11-94.
The facts of this case briefly put were as follows:
The respondent herein as plaintiff sued the appellant herein as defendant at the Sahon Gari Area Court claiming as per page 7 of the records as follows:
"I am suing Alhaji Inuwa seeking the help of the court to receive the house of my husband in his possession which he has bought from M. Sani Gama for the sum of 190pounds equal to N380 since about 24 years ago. The said house is situate at Gama Quarters and it has neighhours as follows: East - Alhaji Garba: West-M. Sanni: South - Road: North - Alhaji Aminu Mai Gwanjo."
When the parties were invited by the court and the plaintiff was asked to state her claim in the presence of the defendant, she repeated on the same page of the records thus:
"I am seeking the court to divide the inheritance of my husband Sgt. Audu who h…