ELIAS, C.J.N. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): In Suit No. LD/60A/71, the applicants made an application on November 28, 1968 to the Registrar of Titles to register themselves as the owners of the freehold property Plots 43 and 44, near Iwaya Road, Onike, Lagos. The application was duly advertised in accordance with section 8(2) of the Registration of Tiles Act; Cap 181, and two objections were lodged against the first registration The hearing of these objections was held and they were dismissed on May 1, 1971 by the then Acting Registrar of Titles, who there upon ordered that the applicants be registered.
The applicants, who were the administrators of the estate of one Aminu Adediran Aderibigbe empowered to administer the estate (see Ex. A), claimed to derive title from the Oloto Chieftaincy family by virtue of Ex. E which was, the conveyance of the plots from the Oloto to Mr. Da Costa who testified that he sold the same to the deceased intestate as per Ex. B. A surveyor also gave…