Ejoh .v. I.G.P (1963) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, F.J. This is a Case Stated for the opinion of the Court by Onyeama, J. in the criminal appeal No. 63 CNI962 of the Lagos High Court. The learned Judge states that the appellant was charged with an offence under section 125A (1) of the Criminal…

Olufela Charles Sowande Vs Mildred Benice Sowande (1963) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA JSC  The appellant was the petitioner in a divorce suit in the High Court of Lagos where he prayed for a dissolution of his marriage with the respondent who, he said, had deserted him. The respondent before the marriage was an American…

Cyril Anyanwu Vs The Queen (1963) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, Ag. C.J.F. The appellant and one Stephen Nwosu were charged jointly on an information containing six counts for conspiracy, fraudulent false accounting and stealing by clerks and servants, and the case for the prosecution was that these offences were committed in fraud of the…

Federal Board Of Inland Revenue V. Diab A. Nasr (1964) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, J.S.C. In these proceedings both the Federal Board of Inland Revenue (“the Board”) and Mr Diab A. Nasr (“the tax-payer”) complain against the order made by the High Court on an appeal brought to it by the tax-payer against the…

M.A. Alatishe V. H.r. Sanyaolu (1964) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ONYEAMA,J.S.C.  This is an appeal by the plaintiff and a cross-appeal by the defendant from the judgment and order of Dickson, J. given on the 13th of January, 1962, in the High Court at Lagos. Mr  Alatishe, the plaintiff, hereinafter referred to as the appellant,…

Vertner W. Tandy Tandy (In The Matter Of The Companies Act (Cap 37)) V. The Harmony House Furniture Co. Ltd (1964) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report PER BRETT JSC  This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court of Western Nigeria dismissing a petition for the winding-up of the respondent company on the ground…

Gabriel Shofolahan Joshua V. The Queen (1964) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report PER ADEMOLA JSC The appellant, who at the material time was the president of the Grade B Customary Court at Ikare in Ondo Province, was on the 13th day of September, 1963, convicted on two counts of Judicial Corruption contra to Section 98(1) of…

Okumagba V. Egbe (1964) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN JSC In January, 1964, four persons, namely the appellant, the respondent, one Mrs Nkune, and one Mr Neequaye, gave in their names as candidates for election in a certain constituency of the Mid West. It is enough to say that the appellants symbol was the umbrella,…

Olayinka Faro V. Inspector General Of Police (1964) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report PER BRETT JSC This is an appeal against the judgment of De Lestang, C.J., dismissing  the appeal brought by the appellant against his conviction before a magistrate on a charge of obtaining money by false pretences. The charge before the magistrate alleged that…

Joseph Jideofor Enwezor V. Joseph Okwudili Onyejekwe & Anor (1964) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA, C.J.N. The appellant, who was the plaintiff in the High Court of the Onitsha Judicial Division, on the 21st March, 1963, brought an action against the respondents. His Writ of Summons reads as follows: “(1) A declaration that the Plaintiff…