ADENLE
V.
OLUDE

(2002) JELR 44627 (SC)

Supreme Court · SC.134/1998 · 27 Sep 2002 · Nigeria
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ADENLE V. OLUDE (2002) 9-10 S.C. 124

Adenle v. Olude (2002) 18 NWLR (Pt. 799) 413

CORAM

EMANUEL O. OGWUEGBU Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria ANTHONY I. IGUH Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria ALOYSIUS I. KATSINA-ALU Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria UMARU A. KALGO Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria SAMSON O. UWAIFO Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria

Ratio Decidendi

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exhibit c

evidence

signature

d.w.1

mr. odunsi

exhibit d

learned trial judge

deed of conveyance

iyade family

d.w.l

evidence act

iyade family layout

leading judgment

court of appeal

exhibit f

parcel of land

plan no. i.t.p.a.

trial court

cross-examination

area of land

execution of exhibit c

lower court

momodu ilo

said exhibit c

exhibit c.

judgment of the court of appeal

lands registry

a.i. iguh

aspect of the said d.w.1

attesting signature of a chief magistrate

chief magistrate of the execution of exhibit c

clear case

court clerk

denial simpliciter

evidence of the plaintiff

exhibit a.

exhibit e

following issues

laid claim

magistrates' court

order of perpetual injunction

owner of the said plot 61a

plaintiff claims

profound respect

provision of section

representatives of the said iyade family

respondent's case

said d.w.1

said land

view of the evidence of p.w.3

S.O. UWAIFO, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, given on 17 July, 1997. The judgment overturned that of the trial court delivered on 5 November, 1993. The case concerns a parcel of land known as plot 61 A in the Iyade Family Layout, off Airport Road, Ikeja, Lagos. The plaintiff claims that the parcel of land was sold to him on 8 April, 1971, by the duly accredited representatives of the said Iyade family, evidenced by a purchase receipt, Exhibit A. Later, by a deed dated 13th May, 1971 (Exhibit C), the land was conveyed to him. But because the defendant subsequently laid claim to the said land by purchase from the same Iyade family, as per purchase receipt dated 6 August, 1971, (Exhibit E), followed by a deed of conveyance dated 3 April, 1978, (Exhibit F), the plaintiff sued for (a) a declaration that he is the owner of the said plot 61A now known as No. 2 Oladosun Street, Ikeja, Lagos, shown in Iyade Family…