SIR UDO UDOMA, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): In their writ filed in the Ikeja Judicial Division of the High Court of Lagos State, in suit No. IK/102/69, the plaintiffs, Lion Buildings Limited, a Limited Liability Company, claimed against the defendant therein, M.M. Shadipe, the following:
(1)A declaration of title to a piece or parcel of land situate at Mile 12 Ikorodu Road, Lagos and registered on 27th June, 1969 as No. 43 at page 43 in Volume 1292 in the Lands Registry at Lagos;
(2)A perpetual injunction restraining the defendant and/or his agents from any further acts of trespass on the said land.
Pleadings were ordered and duly filed and delivered.
In their pleadings and evidence at the trial of the suit, it was common ground between the plaintiffs and the defendant that the land, the subject-matter of the suit and in dispute between them, originally formed part of the stool lands of the Onikoro Chieftaincy Family at Mile 12, Ikorodu Road, Lagos; and that the said Onik…