Ayuwe Longe V. Alice Adeyebi Ajakaiye (1962) LLJR-SC
Ayuwe Longe V. Alice Adeyebi Ajakaiye (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report TAYLOR, F.J The plaintiff, Alice Adeyebi Ajakaiye, sued the defendant, Ayuwe Longe, in the Ilesha Lands and Civil Court, claiming the following:-The plaintiff is claiming from the defendant the possession of a land at Ifofin on which the defendant has put up her own […]
Anyaegbu Ojiegbe & Ors V. Gabriel Okwaranyia & Ors (1962) LLJR-SC
Anyaegbu Ojiegbe & Ors V. Gabriel Okwaranyia & Ors (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, F.J This is an appeal by the defendants against the judgment of the High Court of Eastern Nigeria awarding the plaintiffs a declaration of title to a piece of land, £10 damages for trespass and an injunction restraining further acts […]
Iyade Nwango V The Queen (1962) LLJR-SC
Iyade Nwango V The Queen (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, J.S.C. The appellant was convicted on 3rd August, 1963 in the High Court of Eastern Nigeria at Abakaliki, of murdering one Nwefi Oka on the 11th January, 1963 at Amachara Agbaja Izi in the Province of Abakaliki.That day the deceased and five others went […]
Ekine Eze & Ors V. Chief Oruwari Ekpidie Owusoh & Anor (1962) LLJR-SC
Ekine Eze & Ors V. Chief Oruwari Ekpidie Owusoh & Anor (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report TAYLOR, F.J The plaintiffs / respondents suing for themselves and as representing the people of Odaga claim against the ten defendants jointly and severally as follows :- £500 damages for trespass in that on or about the month of […]
Wuraola Kuku V. Fatumo Olushoga (1962) LLJR-SC
Wuraola Kuku V. Fatumo Olushoga (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ONYEAMA, Ag., F.J The Appellant who was the plaintiff in the court below brought an action in the High Court of the Western Region claiming £600 as damages for slander and false imprisonment. The appellant’s case, put shortly, was that the respondent who was the […]
Sabotu Ariku & Anor V. Yesufu Bale Ajiwogbo (1962) LLJR-SC
Sabotu Ariku & Anor V. Yesufu Bale Ajiwogbo (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA, CJF We dismiss this appeal on the 29th October, 1962; we ordered that the case be remitted to the High Court, Ibadan, for retrial. We now give our reasons shortly for so doing as we said we would. In 1957 the […]
The Queen V. Bello (1962) LLJR-SC
The Queen V. Bello (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, FJ The appellant was convicted of murder contrary to section 319 of the Criminal Code. The evidence accepted by the Judge established that about the 21st March, 1960, the appellant and two other men, who have not been found, waylaid a dealer in cloth called […]
B.P (West Africa) Limited V. Akinola Allen (1962) LLJR-SC
B.P (West Africa) Limited V. Akinola Allen (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, F.J The defendant company has appealed from the judgment of Somolu, J., which awarded the plaintiff £907. The plaintiff had obtained on 20th April, 1957, a crown lease of a plot in Ibadan but with a condition that within two years he […]
Ugorji Ezekpe & Anor V. The Queen (1962) LLJR-SC
Ugorji Ezekpe & Anor V. The Queen (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, F.J The two appellants were convicted on four counts of corruption as policemen, and on a count of false pretences; they were acquitted on the 6th count, which accused them of demanding money with menaces with intent to steal. Their complaint is […]
A.C. Abuah V. Legal Practitioners Committee (1962) LLJR-SC
A.C. Abuah V. Legal Practitioners Committee (1962) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA, C.J.F On 29th January, 1962, an enquiry was held into the conduct of Alfred Chukwuemeka Abuah, a legal practitioner of this Court. The Legal Practitioners’ Committee set up under the Legal Practitioners Act, Cap. 101, which met that day to consider the conviction […]