Before Their Lordships
KUDIRAT MOTONMORI OLATOKUNBO KEKERE-EKUN - Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
EJEMBI EKO - Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
MOHAMMED LAWAL GARBA - Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
IBRAHIM MOHAMMED MUSA SAULAWA - Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
TIJJANI ABUBAKAR - Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
Between
1. LAMIDI SANNI
2. ALHAJA S. A. OLUFODUN
3. MR. AKIN O. ALLI
4. MR. S. O. AINA
5. MR. A. A. AINA
6. MRS. BOLA BELLO
7. MR. RASHIDI F. SALIU
8. MR. R. O. FADEYI
9. MR. H. FADEYI
10. MR. F. K. ADEYINKA
11. MADAM AYEDUN
12. MR. R. ADELEYE
13. MR. OLUKAYODE ADELEYE
14. MR. J. A. ADELEYE
15. MR. O. E. ADELEYE
16. MR. OJOBARO
17. MR. K. OJOBARO
18. MRS. O. WELLINGTON
19. MISS. A. W. ADEYALA
20. MR. BAKARE Y. ABU
21. MR. O. GABRIEL
22. MR. SULE ONAGBOLU
23. MISS. T. AFOLAKE
24. MR. ODEYINKA DARAMOLA
25. MR. M. MABADEJE
26. MR. R. A. SAKA
27. MR. W. A. FASASI
28. MR. S. ADENUGA
29. THE TRUSTEES OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH
30. MR. J. A. AGBAIKA
31. MR. S. A. OGUNJOBI
32. FUNKE A. KEHINDE
33. PASTOR OGUNBIYI
34. M. O. BANGBOSE
35. MR. M. KILASHO
36. MR. N. KARIMU
37. MR. R. T. ADEGBORO
38. MR. J. OYEWUNMI
39. MR. A. ARO
40. MR. O. JOSHUA
41. MR. L. OYEKAN
42. MR. LAIGA
43. MR. LEKAN
44. MR. RASHIDI
45. MADAM K. ONIMOLE
46. MR. EDIM ITAKPO
47. MUNIRATU BAAGBA
48. MULIKATU
49. BABA IBEJI
50. MR. AJOSESHE SHITA
51. MR. B. ALIYU ALLIBAY
52. BIMBOLA LAWAL
53. M. O. ADEKUNLE
54. DAUDA KEHINDE
55. RASHEED ADEYEMI
56. MRS. WALAITU ADEFALA
57. DIYA YUSUF OGBENLA ITAMETA
(Head of Ogbenia Family)
58. PRINCE ADETUNDE OGUNSANYA
59. ENIGBOKAN ABUDU
(Principal for and on behalf of Ogbenia Family & other unknown persons on the land) - Appellants
And
CHIEF SALAMI ORUKU
(For himself and on behalf of the entire AYONNUSEN CHIEFTAINCY FAMILY) - Respondent
EJEMBI EKO, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The Respondents were the Plaintiffs, at the trial Court. At their suit, inter alia, for declaration of title; the trial Court (per S. A. Adebajo, J.) on 21st July, 2001 affirmed the title of the Respondents in and over the disputed land. The Appellants were the defendants at the said trial High Court of Lagos State holden at Ikeja. Notwithstanding the trial Court adjudging the Appellants as trespassers on the disputed land and its order of perpetual injunction restraining them jointly and/or severally from committing further acts of trespass on the land the subject matter of this appeal, the Appellants, as defendants, remain on the land defiantly, albeit contemptuously, under the cover or January, 2002 the learned trial Judge, S. A. Adebajo, J, finding that the defendants/Appellants were adjudged trespassers refused to grant an order staying the execution of his judgment in their favour. The application for stay of execution pending appeal was then dismissed. The purported appeal, on which the application for stay of execution pending the determination of the appeal, was premised on the Notice of Appeal filed on 10th August, 2001 containing only one ground; the omnibus ground complaining that "the judgment delivered on 27th day of July, 2001 is against the weight of evidence" as the only or sole ground of appeal. The Notice was settled by "TAIWO AJALA & Co".
