OGBUAGU JSC (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This is an appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal, Ibadan Division (hereinafter called “the court below”) (stated in the respondents’ brief to be “Ibadan Judicial Division”) delivered on 3 April 2003 affirming the judgment of the Ogun State High Court holden at Ijebu-Ode Judicialdivision delivered on 16 January 1996; per Oyewole Osidipe, J. entering judgment in favour of the plaintiffs/respondents in respect of all their claims.
Dissatisfied with the said decision, the appellants who were the defendants in the trial court, have appealed to this court on four (4) grounds of appeal which without their particulars, read as follows: “1. The Justices of Court of Appeal erred in law by holding that “therefore, Okejasi Community is a party to the proceedings where the names of the families are stated and the name of the families within the Community may be interchangeably used to describe the same people as Okejasi Community, the disti…