MUHAMMAD JSC (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This appeal is on land matter. It is against concurrent decisions of the High Court of the then East Central State of Nigeria, holden at Aba whichlater metamorphosed intothe High Court ofthe present Imo State (trial court) and the Port Harcourt
Judicial Division of the Court of Appeal (the court below). The plaintiffs at the trial court, (who are the respondents herein) took out a writ of summons wherein they made the following claims against the defendants (who are now the appellants):
“Declaration of title to all that piece or parcel of land known as Ikeoha Umuarapara/Okpulor Umuarapara situate at Uratta Okpu-Umuobo in Aba Urban Division valued at N20.00 (twenty naira) annually. 2. N500.00 (five hundred naira) being general damages for trespass committed by the defendants on the said land on or about 13 September 1975. 3. Perpetual injunction to restrain the defendants’ their servants or agents from committing further acts of trespass on …