OYEFESO
V.
COKER
·
PATS-ACHOLONU, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The plaintiff's claim against the defendant are:-
An order rectifying the register if titles kept in the Lagos Land Registry by deleting the name of the defendant as the freehold proprietor of the land registered under title No. MO2798.
(2) A declaration that the plaintiff is the fee simple owner or that portion of the above land (which will be shown on the plan to be filed by the plaintiff in this suit) that falls within the plaintiff land subject matters of his application first registration in title No. MO. 2741
(3) Annual rental value of land in dispute is 10pounds. The suit was filed when the pound sterling was the legal tender in use.
The facts of the case of the respondent who was the plaintiff in the lower court are that the land in dispute forms portion of the land originally conveyed to one Bakare Osheru by Oloto chieftaincy family by a deed of conveyance dated, 18th June 1910 and thereafter registered as No.4 at P.9…