Bertram Mekwunye V Director Of Audit (W. N.) (1967) LLJR-SC
Bertram Mekwunye V Director Of Audit (W. N.) (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, J.S.C. The Director of Audit surcharged an amount of £1,210-10s-11d upon Bertram Mekwunye, who appealed under section 207 of the Local Government Law (cap 68 in the 1959 Laws of the Western Region of Nigeria) to the High Court; there he […]
Alhaji Sule Katagun & 2 Ors (Constituting The Police Service Commission) V M.E.K Roberts (1967) LLJR-SC
Alhaji Sule Katagun & 2 Ors (Constituting The Police Service Commission) V M.E.K Roberts (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, Ag. C.J.N. The respondent was at all material times the Deputy Inspector-General of the Nigeria Police Force, and the appellants were the Chairman and Members of the Police Service Commission established by section 109 of […]
Commissioner Of Police, Mid-western Nigeria V Layinka Akpata (1967) LLJR-SC
Commissioner Of Police, Mid-western Nigeria V Layinka Akpata (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA, C.J.N. This is an appeal by the prosecutor against a judgement of Ekeruche, J., setting aside a conviction on four counts as well as sentences imposed on the present respondent. Originally the respondent, who was a registrar in the High Court […]
Debesi Djukpan V Rhorhadjor Orovuyovbe And Another (1967) LLJR-SC
Debesi Djukpan V Rhorhadjor Orovuyovbe And Another (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report LEWIS, J.S.C. The appellant in this appeal was the plaintiff in an action to redeem land, which he claimed had been pledged to the defendants, in the Central Urhobo Grade B Court which was dismissed with £25 costs. He appealed first to the […]
L.A. Are V Adisa And Nigerian Housing Development Society Ltd (1967) LLJR-SC
L.A. Are V Adisa And Nigerian Housing Development Society Ltd (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report COKER, J.S.C. The appellant was the plaintiff and the respondents the defendants in an action tried before Ademola J. in the High Court, Ibadan, Western Nigeria. The plaintiffs writ is endorsed as follows:- ‘The plaintiff claims against the defendants- (i) […]
Lagos City Council (Trading Under The Name Of Lagos City Transport) V. S. A. J. Ogunbiyi (1967) LLJR-SC
Lagos City Council (Trading Under The Name Of Lagos City Transport) V. S. A. J. Ogunbiyi (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA, C.J.N. The defendant/appellant runs transport service in Lagos and its environs, and it is not in dispute that the plaintiff/respondent on the 12th August, 1965 travelled in one of its buses along Ikorodu […]
Bank Of America (National Trust And Savings Association) V Nigerian Travel Agencies Ltd (1967) LLJR-SC
Bank Of America (National Trust And Savings Association) V Nigerian Travel Agencies Ltd (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report LEWIS,J.S.C. This is an appeal from the decision of Alexander J. In the Lagos High Court on the 12th October, 1964, in which he allowed the appeal of the defendants against the decision of Mr. A. R. […]
Chief O.A. Fabumiyi And Another V F.a. Obaji And Another (Substituted For Madam Ibilola) (1967) LLJR-SC
Chief O.A. Fabumiyi And Another V F.a. Obaji And Another (Substituted For Madam Ibilola) (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report COKER, J.S.C. This appeal is brought by the plaintiffs against the judgment of Fatayi Williams, J.(as he then was) sitting in the High Court, Akure, Western Nigeria. Before him the plaintiffs had claimed as follows:- (i) […]
Sanni Kehinde (Mogaji Agunbiade) V Amole Ogunbunmi And Others (1967) LLJR-SC
Sanni Kehinde (Mogaji Agunbiade) V Amole Ogunbunmi And Others (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, J.S.C. The plaintiff sued in the High Court of Western Nigeria (Suit No. 1/207/1961) claiming a declaration of title to land and an injunction to restrain trespass. In the writ of summons dated the 3rd August, 1961 he is described […]
Anglo-canadian Cement Ltd V O. Alokolaro & Co (1967) LLJR-SC
Anglo-canadian Cement Ltd V O. Alokolaro & Co (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, Ag. C.J.N. In this case the trial judge made an order of non-suit in the plaintiffs’ claim for damages for negligence on the ground that the plaintiffs had failed to prove that lorry No. LD 4877, which had been involved in […]