MODUPE FASANMI, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Ogun State High Court of Justice in Suit No. HCT/86/2008 delivered on the 3rd of July 2013.
By the Amended Statement of Claim at pages 85-88 paragraph 32, of the record of appeal, Respondents as Claimants at the High Court claimed against the Appellants as Defendants as follows:
1. A DECLARATION that the Claimants are entitled to the grant of statutory right of occupancy to all that piece or parcel of land lying, being and situate at Atan-Ota Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government area of Ogun State as shown in survey Plan No.AKN/OG/007/LD/2009.
2. AN ORDER of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendants by themselves, their agents and privies from further trespassing on the Claimants family land.
3. A sum of One Million general damages for trespass.
4. Possession of the said land.
The brief facts of the Respondents case are that the Respondents claimed to be the rightful owner of the land in di…