NNAMANI, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is interesting from several perspectives. First, in substance it is about a case in which two communities are contending about title to a piece of land known as ALA-AMAEKE. Each community claims that the land in dispute formed part of a larger area which had descended to it from its ancestors. Each also claimed that it gave the other community a portion of this land and neither community claimed the portion on which the other community resided. Second, the case has raised once more the perennial question of how a trial court should approach the resolution, in a judgment, of the issues raised before it in a civil suit.
In this Suit which started from the High Court of the East Central State, Gulu Judicial Division, the plaintiffs (respondents herein) suing as representatives of the Umuokwara Onene Umuezeala Ogboko family sued defendants (appellants herein) in their personal capacities for the following reliefs.
"1. Declaration…