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ALLI & ANOR.
V.
ALESINLOYE & ORS.

(2000) JELR 44066 (SC)

Supreme Court 7 Apr 2000 Nigeria
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- Plaintiffs (Oroye family) claimed title, damages for trespass, and injunction against defendants (Alesinloye family and others) over land at Igbo-Ori-Oke Express Road, Ibadan, on the basis that their ancestor, Oroye, received the land as

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Suit Number:SC.96/1994
Judges:ADOLPHUS GODWIN KARIBI-WHYTE Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria MICHAEL EKUNDAYO OGUNDARE Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria ANTHONY IKECHUKWU IGUH Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria SAMSON ODEMWINGIE UWAIFO Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria EMMANUEL OLAYINKA AYOOLA Justice of The Supreme Court of Nigeria
Counsel:A. Isola Gbenla, Esq. For Appellant R. A. Sarumi, Esq.A. A. Yesufu, Esq. For Respondent

IGUH, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): By a writ of summons issued on the 11th day of December, 1987 in the Ibadan Judicial Division of the High Court of Justice, Oyo State, the plaintiffs, for themselves and on behalf of the Oroye family, instituted an action jointly and severally against the 1st to the 5th defendants as representatives of the Alesinloye family and the 6th to the 9th defendants claiming as follows:-

(a) Declaration of Title to a Statutory Right of Occupancy over all that piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being at Igbo-Ori-Oke Express Road, Ibadan, the Survey plan of which is filed with this Statement of Claim.

(b) The sum of N20,000.00 (Twenty Thousand Naira) being special and general damage for continuing acts of trespass committed and still being committed by the defendants on the land in dispute.

(c) An order of injunction restraining the defendants, their servants, agents, privies or any person claiming through or under them from committing fur…

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