S. U. ONU, J.S.C (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The present two plaintiffs/respondents by a motion on notice dated the 14th day of September and filed in this court on the 15th day of September, 1999, prayed and their prayer was granted, for them to be substituted in place of the four original plaintiffs (now deceased) that initially sued the seven defendants/appellants in a representative capacity. In that suit which was tried by Nwokedi, J. (as he then was) in the High Court of the defunct Anambra State, holden at Enugu, the four original plaintiffs/respondents claimed against the seven defendants/appellants, also in a representative capacity in paragraph 25 of the formers', Statement of Claim, as follows:-
"25(a) Declaration of title of communal ownership of the pieces and parcels of land known as "AbaIi" and "Osusu" situate at Okwe Amankwo Ngwo, Udi Division within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court. The said parcels of land are more clearly shown and demarcated in pla…