Sabotu Ariku & Anor V. Yesufu Bale Ajiwogbo (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA, CJF We dismiss this appeal on the 29th October, 1962; we ordered that the case be remitted to the High Court, Ibadan, for retrial. We now give our reasons shortly for so doing as we said we would. In 1957 the…

The Queen V. Bello (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, FJ  The appellant was convicted of murder contrary to section 319 of the Criminal Code. The evidence accepted by the Judge established that about the 21st March, 1960, the appellant and two other men, who have not been found, waylaid a dealer in cloth called…

B.P (West Africa) Limited V. Akinola Allen (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, F.J The defendant company has appealed from the judgment of Somolu, J., which awarded the plaintiff £907. The plaintiff had obtained on 20th April, 1957, a crown lease of a plot in Ibadan but with a condition that within two years he…

Ugorji Ezekpe & Anor V. The Queen (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, F.J The two appellants were convicted on four counts of corruption as policemen, and on a count of false pretences; they were acquitted on the 6th count, which accused them of demanding money with menaces with intent to steal. Their complaint is…

A.C. Abuah V. Legal Practitioners Committee (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA, C.J.F On 29th January, 1962, an enquiry was held into the conduct of Alfred Chukwuemeka Abuah, a legal practitioner of this Court. The Legal Practitioners’ Committee set up under the Legal Practitioners Act, Cap. 101, which met that day to consider the conviction…

The Queen V. Chukwuji Obiasa (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, F.J This appeal was allowed at the hearing on the 30th November, 1962, for reasons which will be stated now. The appellant was convicted of murdering one Ntakpu Ngbanyi on 1st December, 1961, at Okpai in the Warri Judicial Division. The last person Ntakpu…

The Queen V. Azu A. Owoh & Ors (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, F.J The appellants are three out of eight persons who were tried jointly in the High Court of Eastern Nigeria on an information in the name of the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, signed on his behalf by a…

Chief Shittu Ogunremi & Ors Vs D. Asiyanbi & Ors (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, F.J This decision covers both the present application and that in Adeniyi v. Asiyanbi and others F.S.C. 364/1962. This is an application by the appellants for a stay of execution of the judgment of the High Court of Western…

Mallam Momo Gusan & Anor V. Paterson Zochonis & Co. Ltd (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report TAYLOR, F.J The plaintiffs sued the defendants in the High Court of the Kano Judicial Division for the sum of £512-10s-7d being the amount alleged to be due and owing by the 1st defendant to the plaintiffs on his…

Ezeokeke & Ors V. Uga & Ors (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report TAYLOR, F.J This is an appeal from the Judgment of Reynolds, J., dismissing the plaintiffs’ claims to the following:- “(a) A declaration of title to the area known as “Agu Owerri” in Ikpanikita situate at Mkporogwu-Aeka Division. (b) £300 damages for trespass, and…