THOMAS JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of R. G. Oyetunde J delivered on 22 January 2001 at High Court 2 Ibadan. The trial Judge granted the plaintiff now respondent, the ownership of the piece of land in which eight shops were built on Oganla compound along with order of injunction. The defendants now appellants were dissatisfied with the judgment and filed notice of appeal with five grounds of same. The respondent also, filed out of time, a cross appeal against the trial court’s refusal of his other reliefs for account and payment in terms of rents collected by the appellants on shops built by the respondent. The brief facts of the case as stated by the parties are as follows:
The respondent as plaintiff, at the lower court, as per the further amended statement of claim, claimed A declaration of title to a piece of land on which eight shops were built situate, lying and being at Oganla Compound, Oke-
Seni, Ibadan.
Statement of accounts for al…