Adebayo Ogundoyin V David Adeyemi (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report ONU, J.S.C. This is an appeal against the judgment/order of the Court of Appeal holden at Ibadan in suit No.CN/1/122/89 dated the 19th of January, 1994. The respondent therein as plaintiff, had instituted the action in a representative capacity in the High Court of…

Iyke Medical Merchandise V. Pfizer Inc. & Anor (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report UWAIFO, J.S.C. This action has its cause in the tort of passing-off. The plaintiffs (now respondents) claim to be entitled to the trademark of a pharmaceutical product, a worm expeller for the treatment of worms in children and adults, known as…

Sparkling Breweries Limited V Union Bank Of Nigeria Limited (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report OGUNDARE, J.S.C. The appellants were, at all times relevant to this case, customers of the respondent bank. All the appellants belong to a group known as Olori Group of Companies. Following the cancellation by the respondent of purported letters of…

Boothia Maritime Inc. & Ors V. Fareast Mercantile Company Ltd. (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report ACHIKE, J.S.C. The plaintiff claims against the three defendants jointly and severally for the sum of N100,000.00, being special and general damages for the loss of and/or non-delivery by the defendants as common carriers and bailees for reward for…

Chima Ijioffor V. The State (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report AKINTOLA OLUFEMI EJIWUNMI, J.S.C. At the conclusion of the hearing of this Appeal on the 25th of January 2001, this Appeal was dismissed by me. Thereafter I indicated that my reasons for its dismissal would be given on the 20th April 2001. The Appellant…

Chief Otonyeseigha Ololo V Nigerian Agip Oil Company Ltd & Anor (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report I.L. KUTIGI, J.S.C. At the Port-Harcourt Division of the Federal High Court, the Plaintiff sued the Defendants for the sum of N500,000.00 being special and general damages arising out of the Defendants’ negligence in causing the collision and…

Joseph Adebayo Osagunna V. The Military Governor Of Ekiti State & Ors (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report OGUNDARE, J.S.C. Following the death on 21st October, 2000 of Joseph Adebayo Osagunna, the plaintiff/appellant, the applicants herein brought this application praying this Court for an order that the applicants be substituted for the named appellant now…

First Bank Of Nigeria Plc V. May Medical Clinics & Diagnostic Centre Limited & Anor (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report BELGORE, J.S.C. This is an appeal against the judgment of Court of Appeal in an interlocutory matter, in the suit originating at High Court of Kaduna State presided over by Donli, J. The plaintiffs,…

Raymond S. Dongtoe V. Civil Service Commission, Plateau State (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report KARIBI-WHYTE, J. S.C The appeal in this case is again one of the now familiar cases in which the aggrieved resorts to the procedure for seeking relief under the fundamental rights provisions of the Constitution for wrongs where the breach…

Rev. Hyde Onuaguluchi V. Mr. Ben Collins Ndu & Ors (2001) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report UWAIFO, J.S.C. The appellant contested election to the Senate as a candidate of the All Peoples Party (APP) in Enugu West Senatorial District in February, 1999. The other candidates were Mr. Ben Collins Ndu, a candidate of the Peoples…