SANUSI, JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This is an appeal against the decision of Borno State High Court (hereinafter to be referred to as “the court below”) delivered on the 1st day of December, 1999. The appellant was the plaintiff in the court below, while the seven respondents were defendants thereat. As per the amended statement of claim, the appellant as plaintiff in the court below claimed the following reliefs:
a. The sum of ₦350,000.00 being general damages for trespass to goods.
b. The sum of ₦350,000.00 being general damages for trespass to premises.
c. The sum of ₦350,000.00 being general damages for trespass to person.
d. The sum of ₦222,300.00 for special damages.
The facts that gave rise to this appeal are as follows. The 7th respondent a corporation wholly owned by the Borno State Government was charged with the responsibility of, among others letting houses in the Ibrahim Taiwo Housing Estate Maiduguri. On the 21st day of June, 1983 it allocated its property/house N…