Ndokwu Mberekpe V. Udom Adikes & Anor (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, F.J The proceedings out of which this appeal originates started as a private prosecution in the Magistrate’s Court of the Owerri Magisterial District in Eastern Nigeria on two charges under the Recognition of Chiefs Law, 1960. Objections were taken to the charges,…

Chief Festus Okotie-eboh & Ors V. Director Of Public Prosecutions (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA, C.J.F The three appellants were among the 9 accused persons convicted in the High Court at Sapele in the Western Region of the offence of forcible entry contra Section 74 of Cap. 28 of the Laws of the Western…

The Queen V. Enebiene Ijoma (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA JSC The appellant was in the High Court of Lagos on 28th day of July, 1961, convicted on an indictment in nine counts of various offences’, that is to say, 5 counts of forgery contra Section 467 of the Criminal Code, 2 counts of…

Jia Enterprises (Electrical) Limited & Anor V. British & French Bank Ltd (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, F.J The circumstances giving rise to these appeals are as follows. The first respondents, Jia Enterprises (Electrical) Limited (hereinafter referred to as Jia), brought an action in the High Court of Lagos against the second respondents, the…

Bello Adeleke V. Falade Awoliyi & Anor (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA, C.J.F On 13th March, 1962, we allowed this appeal. These are the reasons we indicated we shall give later why the appeal was allowed. The appeal was from an interlocutory judgment delivered by Doherty, J. in the High Court of Ibadan on…

Chief Ideliaguahan Ozogula Ii V. The Queen: Ex Parte Chief Lewis Ekpenga (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA, C.J.F This is an appeal from an order of Mandamus made by Doherty, J., in the High Court of the Western Region, ordering the appellant to perform certain traditional ceremony which by customary law of his tribe…

Albert E. Nwobu & Anor V. Commissioner Of Police (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, F.J  The appellants, who were employees of the West African Airways Corporation at Kano, were convicted on summary trial by consent, the first of stealing a box of gold worth about £7,000 from an aeroplane in transit, and the second…

Lawal Adisa Yusuf Shitta-bey V. Chairman, Lagos Executive Devt. Board (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, F.J The contest between the appellants (hereafter called the second Claimants) and the second respondents (hereafter called the first Claimants) relates to the compensation payable for No. 41/43 Martins Street, Lagos, which was acquired by the Chairman, Lagos Executive…

Laibru Limited V. Building & Civil Engineering Contractors (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, F.J The appellant company complains that the learned Judge (Onyeama, J., on the 28th October, 1960, in the High Court of Lagos suit 60 of 1960), having found in favour of the claim on the merits, erred in dismissing it on…

Hon. S.L. Akintola V. Sir Adesoji Aderemi & Anor (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA, C.JF ON the 21st day of May, 1962, the above-named plaintiff filed an action in the High Court at Ibadan in Western Nigeria against the 1st defendant claiming as follows:- (i) A Declaration that there is no right in the…