MUKHTAR, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): A claim for the following reliefs was made by the plaintiffs against the defendant.
1.Declaration that a deed of conveyance executed on the 19th day ofAugust, 1977 and registered as No. 51 at page 51 in volume 2152 of the Lands Registry in the office at Ibadan and signed by one Lasisi Aweni Odeyoyinde as head of Odeyoyinde family and
Busari Baruwa as Principal member of Odeyoyinde family as Vendors conveying 3,931 acres of Odeyoyinde family land described in the deed of conveyance to Dr. Richard A. Olaniyan the 1st defendant is null and void and should be set aside as the vendors had and still have no right power or authority to sell or grant Odeyoyinde family land.
ii.N500 (Five hundred naira) damages for trespass.
Pleadings were ordered and exchanged by both sides to the case. Briefly put, the case for the plaintiffs who are now the respondents in this appeal is as follows. The land in dispute, forms a larger area of land originally gra…