OGUNDARE, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): Sometime in 1957 one Sumelu Egbeyemi, now deceased, bought a piece or parcel of land lying and situate at Apata village near the University of Ibadan in Ibadan from the Obadina family. The land was said to be part of a larger piece of land belonging to that family. Title was conveyed to the said Egbeyemi by the family by a deed of conveyance made on the 21st day of December 1957 and registered at the Ibadan Lands Registry. Sumelu Egbeyemi took possession of the land and exercised acts of ownership on it by planting seasonal and cash crops and clearing the same. He laid it out into plots and the layout plan was approved in 1960 by the Ibadan Town Planning Authority. He remained in undisturbed possession of the land until his death on 29th day of June 1975. On 19th November 1979, letters of administration for the purpose of administering his estate were granted to Alhaji Y.O. Egbeyemi and Safuratu A. Egbeyemi.
On 20th November 1974 the…