Alhaji Shuaibu Abdulkarim V. Incar (Nigeria) Ltd. (1992) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report L. UWAIS, J.S.C. In his writ of summons, the appellant, as plaintiff, claimed against the respondent, as defendant, in the High Court of Kano State as follows: “(1) Delivery up of the said two lorry vehicles numbers KNF 3652 and KNF 4741 or…

Alo Chukwu V. The State (1992) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report S. M. A. BELGORE, J.S.C. The charge against the appellant, Alo Chukwu, at the trial court, was that he murdered one Wilfred Ned George on 6th day of August. 1983 at George – Ama, Okrika in the Port Harcourt Judicial Division of Rivers State, and…

The Attorney-general And Commissioner For Justice, Anambra State & Ors. V. Robert C. Okafor & Ors.(1992) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report OMO, J.S.C.  The defendants/appellants and the 4th and 5th respondents have been engaged in a tussle as to who has the right to select. Install, and indeed present the traditional ruler of Awka (variously called…

Solomon Thomas Akpan V. The State (1992) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report OMO, J.S.C.  The appellant here was charged in the High Court of Cross-River State with the murder of one Akpan Peter Udombang, an offence contrary to Section 319 (1) of the Criminal Code. After a trial in which the prosecution called ten witnesses and…

Horst Sommer & Ors. V. Federal Housing Authority (1992) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report OMO, J.S.C.  The plaintiffs/appellants claimed in the High Court of Lagos the sum of N1.5 million as damages for wrongful seizure and conversion of plant, machinery and equipment, in the premises of the defendant/respondent, which they claimed to belong to them. The…

Hon. Justice Adenekan Ademola & Anor. V. Chief Harold Sodipo & Ors.(1992) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report E. OGUNDARE, J.S.C. By paragraph 27 of their further amended Statement of Claim the plaintiffs who sued in their individual capacities as beneficiaries of the Estate of Isaac Ademoye Sodipo deceased, claimed from the defendant, the Executor and Trustee…

Sotuminu Vs Ocean Steamship (Nig) Ltd (1992) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report M. L. UWAIS, J.S.C.  The appellant instituted a suit in the High Court of Lagos State against the respondents claiming, as appropriate, as follows:- The appellant’s case in the High Court before Agoro J, (as he then was) was that on 18th February, 1983,…

Mr. D. O. Orji V. Zaria Industries Ltd. & Anor. (1992) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report B. WALI, J.S.C. The appellant as plaintiff filed a Writ of Summons against the respondents as defendants in the Judicial Division of the Kaduna State High Court asking for the following reliefs – “The Plaintiffs claim as against the defendants…

Olumuyiwa Sotuminu V. Ocean Steamship (Nigeria) Ltd & Ors. (1992) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report L. UWAIS, J.S.C. The appellant instituted a suit in the High Court of Lagos State against the respondents claiming, as appropriate, as follows:- The appellant’s case in the High Court before Agoro J, (as he then was) was that on 18th…

L.T. Col. Mrs. R.A.F. Finnih V. J.O. Imade (1992) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report O. BABALAKIN, J.S.C. In the Benin High Court of the then Bendel State now Edo State, the Plaintiff/Respondent took action against the Defendant/Appellant as follows:- “(a) A declaration of statutory right of occupancy to the plaintiff’s piece of land verged green in…