DAWODU
V.
AJOSE

GALINJE JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): By an amended statement of claim dated 9 July 1998 and filed on 22 July 1998, the 1st respondent herein who was the plaintiff at the lower court claimed against: 1st appellant; the following reliefs:

A declaration that plaintiff is the lessee and present owner of the piece or parcel of land situate at and known as No. 1 Jonwo (Adejonwo) Street, Mende Village, Maryland which land is more particularly described and delineated on survey plan No. SEW/W/1325 dated 30 January 1969.

) An order granting possession of the said land to plaintiff on the ground that having denied plaintiff’s title, 1st defendant has forfeited the granted (sic) his late father and predecessors in title. ) A perpetual injunction restraining 1st defendant whether by himself or by his agents and privies from further trespassing on the said land.

(iv) Arrears of rent owing in respect of the said land at the rate of N320,000.00 (three hundred and twenty thousand naira) per an…