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AKINWEHINMI
V.
AJAYI

(2017) JELR 37249 (CA)

Court of Appeal 24 Mar 2017 Nigeria
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Suit Number:CA/AK/5/14
Judges:UZO IFEYINWA NDUKWE-ANYANWU Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria MOHAMMED AMBI-USI DANJUMA Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria RIDWAN MAIWADA ABDULLAHI Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria
Counsel:A. O. Oyinbo, Esq. For Appellant Segun Isumede, Esq. For Respondent

MOHAMMED AMBI-USI DANJUMA, J.C.A.(Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal by the Plaintiff/Appellant against the judgment of Honourable Justice O. O. Akeredolu of the Ondo State High Court, Ore Judicial Division delivered on the 7th day of August, 2013 dismissing the reliefs claimed by the appellant.

Dissatisfied, the Appellant filed a notice of appeal on the 10th October, 2013

STATEMENT OF FACTS

The appellant is the head of family called Orisadiyelomo.

The family had land located at a place called Ore Araba, Odigbo Local government.

On part of the family land one Mr. Timothy Adeoye occupied it as a tenant.

The land occupied by Mr. Timothy Adeoye was sold to defendant as claimed by the appellant.

The position of the appellant was that as head of family he never consented or participated in the sale of the land in dispute to the defendant.

The appellant agreed that he and other principal members of the family were sued by Timothy Adeoye in 2013 when he noticed that some family memb…

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