BELGORE, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The plaintiffs at the trial court are now the appellants before this court. They won their case at the trial Court but the Court of Appeal sitting at Enugu reversed this victory of theirs and thus the appeal to this Court. The plaintiffs are inhabitants of Akpugo in the former Nkanu District of Eastern Nigeria. they are now in Enugu State. The defendants who also inhabit the same district are from Oruku. The suit at the trial Court and up to now is in a representative capacity for each party. The plaintiffs filed a plan of land which is Exhibit A at trial court. Exhibit A is a very detailed and clear plan.
It has got three distinctive portions, to wit, the area verged pink which is to the immediate North of River Inyaba, and North of this is a very extensive portion verged yellow. There are the boundary neighbours of the map - the Akporga Nike land at the extreme west and to the far North of the plan. There is also the land of Owo pe…