SARHUNA
V.
LAGGA

MOHAMMED, JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The proceedings that gave rise to this appeal began at the Saminaka Upper Area Court in Kaduna State on 3/10/89 where the respondent in this appeal as the plaintiffclaimed title to a piece of farmland against the appellant as defendant. The basisof the respondent’s claim for title to the farmland in dispute which was then in possession of the appellant was that the farmland which originally belonged to the respondent’s grandfather was given to the appellant’s grandfather on loan many years earlier. In his response to the respondent’s claim for title the appellant also asserted his claim for title to the same farmland claiming to have inherited the same from his father who also inherited the same from his grandfather who was originally given the place by the chief and which he cleared for farming even before the respondent was born. Before the trial began at the Upper Area Court, each of the claimants to the farmland in dispute told thetr…