NWEZE JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): At the Kwara State High Court, holden at Ilorin, the appellant herein (as claimant) took out a writ of summons against the respondents herein (as defendants), claimingdeclaratory;injunctive and pecuniary reliefs. Specifically, the reliefs were for: A declaration that the defendants jointly and severally are trespassers on the plaintiff’s land, situate and lying at Oke
Ose Village in Ilorin Local Government Area of Kwara State covered by a certificate of occupancy No. KW 6807; Perpetual injunction restraining the defendants either by themselves, agents, servants, privies of anybody deriving title from them from doing anything whatsoever on the plaintiff’s land, situate and being at Oke Ose Village in (old) Ilorin Local Government Area of Kwara State covered by a certificate of occupancy No. KW 6807; and The sum of N500,000.00 (five hundred thousand naira) as damages for the act of trespass committed by the defendants. The respondents countercl…