JOSEPH SHAGBAOR IKYEGH, J.C.A. (Delivering the leading Judgment): The appeal emerged from the judgment of the High Court of Justice of Oyo State holding in Ibadan (the court below) dismissing the respondents' suit with an order directing the Chief Registrar of High Court of Justice, Oyo State, to put the disputed landed property under seal.
In outline, the respondents as plaintiffs at the court below claimed by their amended statement of claim a declaration to statutory right of occupancy to the plot of land with a bungalow and/or appurtenant thereon together with an order of possession of the said premises and an injunction restraining the defendants and any one claiming through them from going on the landed property in dispute. The evidence disclosed that the disputed plot of land with the building thereon is situate at NW4/102 Ekotedo, North West Ibadan Local Government area of Oyo State. It originally belonged to Madam Sophiana Durojaiye Abeke who bequeathed it in writing to one B…