DANTUMBU
V.
ADENE & ORS

OGUNDERE, JCA: (Delivering the Leading Judgment): Before Chigbue J., on March 18, 1985, at the Kaduna High Court, the first Respondent, Peter Adene, as plaintiff obtained judgment against the appellant herein, then first Defendant, as well as the second to the fifth Respondents, in an action for trespass, possession, and perpetual injunction in respect of a parcel of land, Plots No. A and B of 1.75 acres also known as No. BB 29 Ibrahim Taiwo Road, Kaduna, covered by a Certificate of Occup1961. The ancy No. 8128 for a term of 40 years commencing from April 14, 1983, and registered as No. 17, Page 17, Volume 27 in the Land Registry Kaduna. Dissatisfied with that judgment, the first Defendant in the court below brought this appeal.

Although, originally, the appellant brought the appeal against the first respondent only, on the 22nd day of October, 1986, the second, third, and fourth, and fifth respondents applied for and obtained an order that all four be joined as respondents in this ap…