Shell Bp Petroleum Dev. Co. V. Jammal Engineering(Nigeria) Limited (1974) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report COKER, J.S.C.  This appeal involves two cases which were consolidated for hearing by the High Court, Lagos State (Dosunmu, J.). The parties to both cases are the same save for the fact that the plaintiffs in one are the defendants in…

Jackson I. Sanya v. M.A.O. Johnson (1974) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report O. IBEKWE, J.S.C. One Madam Dorcas Folashade Agbeke seems to be the central figure around whom the web of litigation in this case is woven. The Plaintiff claims his title to the land through her. The defendant, who is one of her children, also…

Mallam Muhamadu Abubakar & Ors v. Baba Nana (1974) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report B. A. COKER, J.S.C.  This appeal resolves itself on the facts of the case. The issue always was and is whether the property of the appellant’s father was rightly sold to the respondent’s father by the Native Court, the records of which…

Chief M. A. Okupe v. Federal Board Of Inland Revenue (1974) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report G. B. A. COKER, J.S.C. This appeal involves an application by one Chief Matthew Adekoya Okupe for the prerogative orders of Certiorari and Prohibition against the respondents, The Federal Board of Inland Revenue and the Chief Investigating Officer of the…

Comfort Asaboro V. M.g.d. Aruwaji & Anor (1974) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report COKER, JSC. This ruling concerns an application by the defendant/appellant for an order for “leave of the court to adduce new evidence and for such further order or other orders as this honourable court may deem fit to make in the circumstances”. The…

In Re: Chief M. A. Okupe V. Federal Board Of Inland Revenue (1974) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report COKER, JSC. This appeal involves an application by one Chief Matthew Adekoya Okupe for the prerogative orders of Certiorari and Prohibition against the respondents, i.e., the Federal Board of Inland Revenue and the Chief Investigating Officer of the…

Mrs Margaret Ifop V. Central Bank Of Nigeria (1974) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ELIAS, C.J.N. This appeal against the judgment of the Ikeja High Court delivered on September 27, 1971 raises an important question of pleading. Therein, Dosunmu J. nonsuited the plaintiff who claimed to have made a series of payments totaling 16,350 Pounds in…

Bader Tabaa V. O.r. Lababedi & Anor.(1974) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report G. B. A. COKER, J.S.C.  The point raised in this appeal is not only novel but is also of great importance for it involves a matter of procedure which seldom arises but on which the law is recondite. The claims concerned in the appeal…

Mungo Appah & Anor V. Costain (W.a.) Ltd. & Anor (1974) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ELIAS, CJN.  In this appeal from the judgment of Bakare, J., in Suit Nos. LD/635/69 and LD/636/69 and LD/636/69 (consolidated) delivered in the Lagos High Court on March 19, 1973 against the plaintiffs, the plaintiffs as passengers on Peugeot 403…

The State v. Samson Gali (1974) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report FATAYI-WILLIAMS, J.S.C  This is an appeal by the Acting Director of Public Prosecutions, (Benue-Plateau State), as applicant, against the order of Belgore, J., made in the Jos High Court on 19th February, 1974, in which he refused the application, made by the Acting Director of…