ONWUNALU & ORS
V.
OSADEME

COKER, J.S.C (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The matter for determination in this appeal lies within a small ambit. The respondent. Obodokea Osademe had sued one Okoroigabor Onwunalu for a declaration of title to "land known as Apata with its lake Oge and the ponds therein" and an injunction to restrain the defendant and his agents from entering the land, the lake and the ponds. On his writ the plaintiff expressed himself as suing on behalf of himself and the people of Umuolu and the defendant was expressed to have been sued on behalf of himself and the people of Okpokirika. Pleadings were ordered and filed by both parties and the capacities in which the parties appeared on the writ were confirmed in their pleadings. It appears that sometime after the close of pleadings two persons applied to be joined along with the defendant as representatives of the people of Okpokirika. The court granted their application and it seemed that thereafter the people of Okpokirika were represented a…