ANIAGOLU, J.S.C.: This is another of those cases in which a land-owning family in Lagos sells the same land to several purchasers leaving them to fight the issues in court as to the priorities of their competing interests in the purchased land.
The land involved in this appeal is situate at 8, Iya Ojo Street, Ajegunle, Apapa, and was the subject of a survey, the plan of which was tendered before the trial court as exhibit C.
The plaintiff contended that the land was "leased" to him by the Ojora chieftaincy family in 1961 in which year he went into possession and paid his first rent for which a receipt (exhibit A) was given to him by the family and, enjoying peaceable possession, without let or hindrance, until the interference, by the defendants in October 1976 complained of.
The plaintiffs endorsed writ of summons claimed as follows:
"The plaintiffs claim is for:-N20, 000.00 special and general damages for the wrongful entry by the defendants in or about October, 1976 on the land sit…