ONU, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is from the decision of the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu dated 16th January, 1992 and which upset the judgment of Obiesie,J., sitting at the Anambra State High Court holden in Onitsha and delivered on October 13,1989.
The reliefs sought by the plaintiffs, now respondents against the defendants, herein appellants in the trial Court were:-
(1) N100,000.00 special and general damages for trespass into a piece or parcel of land which the respondents called Abubo Land, the particulars of special damages having been specified and calculated to amount to N11,820.00. It arose from an alleged destruction of economic and seasonal crops by the use of a bull-dozer and a carterpillar by the appellants and
(2) Perpetual injunction.
As both sides in their pleadings (which were ordered, duly filed and exchanged) asserted ownership of the land in dispute which the appellants for their part said went by the name Oheba, title was perforce …