Omidokun Owonyin V Omotosho (1961) LLJR-SC

Omidokun Owonyin V Omotosho (1961) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, F.J In this appeal the plaintiff complains against the judgment given in the High Court, at Ibadan, on the 23rd March, 1959, in a dispute about an area of land of about thirteen square miles. The Statement of Claim was to this effect: – Owonyin, […]

Onaga George & Ors Vs Micho and Company (1961) LLJR-SC

Onaga George & Ors Vs Micho and Company (1961) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report UNSWORTH, F.J This is an appeal from a decision of the High Court of the Enugu Judicial Division awarding the respondent contractor the sum of £3,964 as damages for breach of a building contract. The facts are that the respondent contractor tendered […]

Willaims I. A. And Anor V Karimu Sanusi (1961) LLJR-SC

Willaims I. A. And Anor V Karimu Sanusi (1961) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, AG. C.J.F The appellant is one of the six Registered Trustees of the Enitonna High School, Port Harcourt, who have received a certificate of incorporation under the Land (Perpetual Succession) Ordinance and may thus be sued in their corporate name. In […]

The Queen Vs Oladipo Oshunbiyi (1961) LLJR-SC

The Queen Vs Oladipo Oshunbiyi (1961) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, AG. C.J.F. The appellant was tried in the High Court of Lagos before Coker, J., sitting with a jury, and convicted of murder. The facts, so far as they are relevant, are as follows. The deceased was a carpenter and the appellant had been […]

Nwakobi Anachuna & Ors. Vs Eugene N. Nzekwu & Anor (1961) LLJR-SC

Nwakobi Anachuna & Ors. Vs Eugene N. Nzekwu & Anor (1961) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, F.J This appeal is from the judgment given in two consolidated suits (0/25/58 and 0/32/58) on the 12th May, 1960, by Betuel, J., at Onitsha, in the High Court of the Eastern Region. They were cross-actions between the Ogbo […]

Omotayo Olatunji Vs A. Y. Ojikutu (1961) LLJR-SC

Omotayo Olatunji Vs A. Y. Ojikutu (1961) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report LORD MORRIS This is an appeal from a judgment of the Federal Supreme Court of Nigeria (Jibowu , Nageon de Lestang and Hubbard F.JJ.) of the 23rd February, 1957, allowing an appeal by the respondent (who was the plaintiff in the original proceedings) and […]

Giremabe Chimora Vs Bornu Native Authority (1961) LLJR-SC

Giremabe Chimora Vs Bornu Native Authority (1961) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report HURLEY, C.J.N.R  The appellant was tried in the Court of the Shehu of Bornu on a charge of beating one Yerwama to death with a stick and was convicted of culpable homicide punishable with death and sentenced to death. His appeal to the High […]

Ogunremi Michael Vs The Queen (1961) LLJR-SC

Ogunremi Michael Vs The Queen (1961) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, AG. C.J.F The appellant was charged in the High Court of the Western Region on an information alleging Rape contrary to section 229 of the Criminal Code. After all the evidence had been heard defending counsel in his closing address pointed out that s. […]

John Agagariga Itule Vs The Queen (1961) LLJR-SC

John Agagariga Itule Vs The Queen (1961) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, C.J.F The appellant was convicted in the High Court of the Western Region of the murder of one Ayiwe Ofiawe, who lived in the same compound as himself and was in some way related to him. The medical evidence made it clear that […]

Egbe Rufus Vs The Queen (1961) LLJR-SC

Egbe Rufus Vs The Queen (1961) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report HURLEY, C.J.N.R The appellant was convicted of the murder of his wife. We dismissed his appeal on 9th August, 1961, and the following are our reasons. The deceased’s death was the result of a deep cut on her neck which could have been caused by […]