WALI, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): For clarity and easy understanding of this case, I shall refer to the respondent and the appellants as plaintiff and defendants respectively as done by the Court of Appeal.
The plaintiff, as per her amended writ of summons, sued the defendants in the High Court of Justice, Oyo State of Nigeria, Ibadan Judicial Division, claiming as follows:-
"1. The plaintiff's claim against the defendants jointly and severally for possession of the shops and building erected by the defendants on the plaintiff's family land, situated and being at Aremo Ibadan, without the knowledge and consent of the plaintiff's family and in breach of the judgment in suit No.CV A.23/64 which awarded the plaintiff's family declaration of title and injunction against the defendant's family to all the parcel of land covered by plan OG.27A/62. The plan of the land showing recent building will be filed later. Annual rental value of the land is N20."
The pleadings originally…