Meridien Trade Corporation Limited V. Metal Construction (W.A.) Limited (1998) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report OGUNDARE, J.S.C. The Plaintiff (now Respondent) had claimed from the Defendant (now Appellant) as hereunder: ” …..the sum of N95,220.15 being the price of steel sold to the defendants by the plaintiffs at the defendants’ request together with interest at…

Onehi Okobia V. Mamodu Ajanya & Anor (1998) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report MOHAMMED, J.S.C.  This is an appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Jos Division. The appeal concerns a dispute over the appointment of the first respondent, Mamodu Ajanya, as the clan/village head of Enabo. Soon after the appointment the appellant,…

Chief S.C. Osagie Ii & Anor V. Chief Eugine C. Offor & Anor (1998) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report KUTIGI, J.S.C. This is an interlocutory appeal. It arose in the first instance from the ruling of Gbemudu, J. of the Agbor High Court, delivered on the 14th day of October, 1988.whereby he struck out the…

Alhaji Musa Kala V. Alhaji Burau Potiskum & Anor (1998) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report WALI, J.S.C. This is a case involving inter-pleader action wherein the 1st respondent, Alhaji Barau Potiskum, by an inter-pleader summons take out in Potiskum High Court of the then Borno State, but now of Yobe State, claimed against the appellant,…

Sadiku Osho & Anor V. Michael Ape (1998) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report ONU, J.S.C. In the High Court of the former Ondo (now Ekiti) State holden at Ado-Ekiti (Coram: Ogundare, J (as he then was) the plaintiff now respondent, sued the original defendant, Salami Osho, for: “(a) Declaration of title to a piece or…

Owunari Long-john & Ors V. Chief Crawford N. Blakk & Ors (1998) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report IGUH, J.S.C. This is an appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal, Enugu Division, delivered on the 23rd day of February, 1988. By this decision, the defendants/appellants’ application for extension of time within which to file…

Suara Yusuf Vs Oladepo Oyetunde & Ors (1998) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report UWAIS, C.J.N.  The respondents were the plaintiffs in the High Court of Oyo State sitting at Ibadan. The appellant, as 2nd defendant, was one of the four defendants to the claim jointly and severally brought by the plaintiffs against them seeking the…

Daniel Irefeta Inije V. The State (1977) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report O. OBASEKI, J.S.C.  We dismissed this appeal on the 16th day of December, 1976, and indicated that we would give our reasons at a later date. We now give our reasons. The appellant was tried by Savage, J., in the High Court of…

Chief Osigwe Egbo & Ors Vs Chief Titus Agbara & Ors (1997) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report IGUH, J.S.C. In the Port Harcourt Judicial Division of the High Court of Justice of the former Rivers State of Nigeria, the plaintiffs, who are now respondents, for themselves and as representing the people of Opolo Village, caused…

Egbo V Agbara (1997) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report A. I. IGUH, J.S.C.  In the Port Harcourt Judicial Division of the High Court of Justice of the former Rivers State of Nigeria, the plaintiffs, who are now respondents, for themselves and as representing the people of Opolo Village, caused a writ of summons to issue…