CORAM
SALIHU MODIBBO ALFA BELGORE JUSTICE,SUPREME COURT
UDOMA, JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
AKINTOLA OLUFEMI EJIWUNMI JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
DENNIS ONYEJIFE EDOZIE JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
PARTIES
FRANCIS OKAFOR & 10 ORS APPELLANTS
RESPONDENTS
AREA(S) OF LAW
SUMMARY OF FACTS
The appellants instituted action against the defendants claiming that the Anambra state government acquired their lands and gave it to individuals. The respondents filed an application to strike out the suit on the grounds that the lands were acquired more than 8 years before the action was filed.
HELD
The court held that the time started running for purpose of Limitation Law of Anambra State when the land whose acquisition Government itself in its White Paper admitted was yet to be perfected, was given to a third party by way of right of Occupancy
ISSUES
Was the plaintiffs/appellants’ action statute barred by virtue of the Limitation Law of Anambra State?
RATIONES DECIDENDI
CASES CITED
1) Williams v Williams (1995) 2 SCNJ 22; 2) Federal Capital Development Authority v Naibi (1990) 2 NWLR 270, 281;3) Ege Shipping V. Tigris International (1999) 12 SCNJ, 14)4) Odive v Obor & Anor, (1974) 1 All NLR (Pt. 1) 436 5) Aina v The Trustees of NRC Pensions Fund (1970) 1 All NLR 281)?
STATUTES REFERRED TO
NONE