A. G. IRIKEFE, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): Before the Ikeja Judicial Division of the Lagos State High Court, the Appellants as Plaintiffs claimed thus against the Defendants/Respondents: -
"(1) The Plaintiffs seek an order for declaration that the Defendants being customary tenants of the Igando Community have forfeited their rights to the use of the farmland at Igando, in the Ikeja Judicial Division.
(2) An injunction restraining the Defendants from disturbing the Plaintiffs their agents and or servants from entering upon the said land and or from disturbing the Plaintiffs of the use of the said land.
The Appellants purport to have brought the action for themselves and as the accredited representatives of the Igando Community and obtained an order of court in this regard in the course of the proceedings.
The land, the subject of this dispute, is described as being some one thousand nine hundred and ten acres in area and is shown bordered in pink on exhibit "A", a plan p…