MUKHTAR J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): In the Court below the Appellants who were then the Plaintiffs made the following claim in the Writ of Summons where he instituted an action against the Defendants/Respondents. ''The Plaintiffs' claim is against the Defendants jointly and severally for a sum of N25,000.00 (Twenty Five Thousand Naira) being damages suffered by the plaintiffs when the defendants unlawfully entered the plaintiff's farmland with a team of people on 18/3/87 at Oke-Odo Itosi, Gboreke, Gundungbun, Ilora via Oyo and reaped their palm fruits and also destroyed the Plaintiff's cassava and yam plantations in the night of 9/5/87 when the Defendants again unlawfully and stealthily entered the plaintiff's said farm land at Oke-Odo Itosi, Gboreke, Gundungbun Ilora, via Oyo for the purpose of surveying the farmland.
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An Order of forfeiture of the Defendant's family customary Tenancy on the Plaintiff's land situated, lying and being at Oke-Odo Ito…