AUGIE JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The appellant was granted a lease of Nigeria Railway Corporation’s landed property in April 1995, whereon it erected a large factory and office blocks. The buildings, its structures and equipment, were however demolished on 30 April 2003 and the appellant instituted an action at the High Court, Ibadan, Oyo State, wherein it claimed the following reliefs: (i) The sum of N12,000,000.00 (twelve million naira) being the value of its factory (buildings and fixtures) unlawfully demolished by the defendants.
) The sum of N3,002,000.00 (three million and two thousand naira) being the cost of the plaintiff’s equipment and machinery.
) Thesum of N20,000,000.00 (twentymillion naira) being general damages for trespass, loss of earnings and loss of business reputation.
(iv) Perpetual injunction restraining the defendants by themselves, their agents, servants and/or privies or otherwise howsoever from entering into or otherwise committing any or other acts o…