ANIAGOLU, J.S.C.: The competing parties' interests, giving rise to opposing claims by the appellant and the respondents, in respect of a plot of land, described by the plaintiffs as "a comer piece", along Haastrup Street! Ayilara Street, in Suru-Lere, Lagos, (hereinafter referred to as the land in dispute), have given rise to this appeal from the judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal, Lagos, (Kazeem, Nnaemeka-Agu and Mohammed, JJ.C.A.) delivered in Lagos on 26th September, 1980 dismissing the appeal to that Court lodged by the defendant (Sanyaolu) who had appealed to the Court from the earlier judgment of Dosunmu, J. (as he then was), dated 23rd May, 1977, in the High Court of Lagos, in which he entered judgment for the plaintiffs for a declaration of title to the land in dispute and for an injunction restraining the defendant "from taking possession of the land".
By reason of multiplicity of cases, and the appeals thereon, which will come for mention in this judgment and in order t…