SIR UDO UDOMA, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appellant in the High Court of Kano State, claimed against the respondents as defendants therein, the following:
"(a) a declaration that the purported sale of the plaintiff's landed property at No. 30A Airport Road, Kano, by the first defendant to the second defendant is irregular, improper, invalid, null and void and of no effect.
(b) 136,713pounds special and general damages for unlawful execution on the said plaintiffs property.
(c) an order that the Register at the Lands Registry Kano be rectified by the deletion of the registration of the 2nd defendant as the owner of the said Plaintiffs landed property."
In terms of the pleadings filed and delivered and the evidence in support thereof, the case of the plaintiff was that, as a transporter and general contractor, he was the owner/occupier in possession of the landed property known as No. 30A Airport Road, Kano, by virtue of a Certificate of Occupancy No. 10466 dated 12th…