BRETT, Ag. C.J.E:- This was a representative action, originally brought in the Udoka Native Court, in which the plaintiffs, for themselves and others of Umuanugwo Quarters of Ifite-Ukpo, sued the defendants, for themselves and others of Uruowelle Quarter of Umudioka, claiming a declaration of title to a piece of land called "Agbagolu" or "Mpiti", and damages for trespass.
The land in question is bounded to the East by a motor road constructed by the plaintiffs and defendants, to the South by the Nkissi stream, and to the West by the Okpuaha stream. To the North there seems to be no visible boundary, and both parties claim to own the land stretching northward from the land in dispute to a line of trees described by the defendants as the "Douglas boundary", to which I shall refer later. The case for the plaintiffs is that the defendants own no land North of the Nkissi stream, and that the land East of the motor road and North of the Nkissi stream belongs to the people of Awka, which is …