MONICA BOLNA'AN DONGBAN-MENSEM, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): On the 1st of June, 2007 Honourable Justice A. A. Adeniran upheld the case of the Respondents as Plaintiffs and against the Appellant as Defendant. The parties shall hereafter be referred to simply as Appellant and Respondents respectively.
The Respondents as Plaintiffs before the High Court of Justice of Oyo State sought the following reliefs in their Statement of Claim:-
(1) A declaration that the purported agreement dated 26th day of June, 1996 executed between the plaintiffs and the Defendant for not including essential terms of the contract and so it is illegal and void and should be set aside for the following grounds viz:-
a. It does not represent the true intention of the parties when the contract was entered into between the parties sometimes in March, 1996 at the meeting held in Adetona's compound, Idikan, Ibadan.
b. Though the documents contained illiterate's jurat provisions of Illiterate protection…