DENTON-WEST, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): In the High Court of Lagos State, the plaintiffs (1-3 above) filed separate actions with very similar claims. The facts of the three separate actions emanated out of the same incidence of the same defendant.
The three suits were consolidated by the order of the trial court of 16th April, 1997 and the claims of the plaintiffs were treated at a go by the lower court.
The series of claims in the three different actions before consolidation are fashioned in the same manner/fashion, and followed the sequence below:
"(1) A declaration nullifying the retirement of the plaintiffs by the defendant same not being in cognizance of the defendant's procedure/rules and so ineffectual by illegal.
(2) A declaration that the plaintiffs' entitlements/emolument at retirement to be calculated on the basis of the new/ improved salary scale/structure of the defendant and on the previously salary scale upon which their emolument was calculated.
(3) An …