Umaru Gwandu V. N.A Gwandu (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN JSC Umaru Gwandu was tried before the Emir of Gwandu’s Court on the prosecutor’s statement that he had killed a woman by the name of Rabi. There is no dispute that he threw a mortar at her head as she lay asleep during the…

National Investment & Properties Company Limited & Anor V. Bank Of West Africa Ltd (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN JSC This appeal is against the judgment of de Lestang, C.J., High Court of Lagos in favour of the plaintiff Bank. The Bank’s case was that Mansour had deposited three certificates of leasehold property in…

Riskuwa Shanawa V. Sokoto Native Authority (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA JSC  The appellant was convicted and sentenced to death in the Court of the Sultan of Sokoto of the offence of culpable homicide contrary to Section 221(a) of the Penal Code. His appeal to the High Court, Northern Region, was dismissed and he…

The Queen V. Alexander A. Ohaka (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN JSC This appeal is from the decision of the High Court at Aba (Kaine, J. on 3rd October, 1961) whereby the conviction passed by the Magistrate (O. Inko-Tariah, Esq., on 27th September, 1960) was upheld. Shortly put, the evidence at the trial was…

Gabriel Madukolu & Ors V. Johnson Nkemdilim (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report VAHE BAIRAMIAN, F.J.  This appeal from the High Court of the Eastern Region (Betuel, J. at Onitsha on 23 November, 1959) raises the questions of res judicata and turns on the application of Section 53 of the Evidence Act, which provides that Every…

Ayuwe Longe V. Alice Adeyebi Ajakaiye (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report TAYLOR, F.J The plaintiff, Alice Adeyebi Ajakaiye, sued the defendant, Ayuwe Longe, in the Ilesha Lands and Civil Court, claiming the following:-The plaintiff is claiming from the defendant the possession of a land at Ifofin on which the defendant has put up her own…

Anyaegbu Ojiegbe & Ors V. Gabriel Okwaranyia & Ors (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, F.J This is an appeal by the defendants against the judgment of the High Court of Eastern Nigeria awarding the plaintiffs a declaration of title to a piece of land, £10 damages for trespass and an injunction restraining further acts…

Iyade Nwango V The Queen (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, J.S.C.  The appellant was convicted on 3rd August, 1963 in the High Court of Eastern Nigeria at Abakaliki, of murdering one Nwefi Oka on the 11th January, 1963 at Amachara Agbaja Izi in the Province of Abakaliki.That day the deceased and five others went…

Ekine Eze & Ors V. Chief Oruwari Ekpidie Owusoh & Anor (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report  TAYLOR, F.J The plaintiffs / respondents suing for themselves and as representing the people of Odaga claim against the ten defendants jointly and severally as follows :- £500 damages for trespass in that on or about the month of…

Wuraola Kuku V. Fatumo Olushoga (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ONYEAMA, Ag., F.J The Appellant who was the plaintiff in the court below brought an action in the High Court of the Western Region claiming £600 as damages for slander and false imprisonment. The appellant’s case, put shortly, was that the respondent who was the…