GONIMI
V.
BOLORI

EBIOWEI TOBI, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The Appellant was the Plaintiff in the lower Court wherein he sued the Respondent as Defendant over title to a land measuring 300ft by 250ft situated at Bolori Ward, adjacent to Ibrahim Taiwo Housing Estate, Maiduguri. The claim of the Appellant in addition to the declaration as it is customary in cases of these nature include relief for damages and injunction. The Appellant’s case at the lower Court was that he is the owner of the property he has put in dispute described above, on the premise that he bought same from Sani Goni Alhaji who inherited same from his father Goni Alhaji who in turn inherited it from the founder of the land Goni Shettima. From his evidence, the sale was done verbally and in line with custom. It was therefore a customary sale for which he has taken possession by building a fence therein. The Respondent, which is the Defendant at the lower Court, relied on the allocation made to him of land of 11.363 hect…