G. B. A. COKER, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The present appellant as the plaintiff had instituted an action against the respondents as defendants in the High Court, Agbor, Mid-Western State, claiming against them as follows:-
"a declaration that the parcel of land shown and edged in PINK in the plan to be filed by the plaintiff with his statement of claim in this suit (which parcel of land lies and is situate in Asaba Division of the Benin Province) is the property of the people of UKALA OKPUNO in the Asaba Division of the Benin Province and that as owners in possession they are entitled to the use and occupation of the said parcel of land as against the defendants and the people of OGBUAFO Quarter in EZI in the Asaba Division of Benin Province.
The plaintiff claims further against the defendants and the people of OGBUAFO Quarter in EZI, jointly and severally, the sum of 5,000 pounds being damages for use and occupation of the said land of the people of Ukala Okpuno be…