Victor Yiborku V The Republic (1968) LLJR-SC
Victor Yiborku V The Republic (1968) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report MADARIKAN, J.S.C. In charge No. 530/67 the appellant stood trial in the Chief Magistrate’s Court Lagos on charges of various offences of fraudulent false accounting and stealing, and on the 23rd February, 1967 he was discharged and acquitted on all counts. Thereafter the State filed […]
The State V John Babatunde Lopez (1968) LLJR-SC
The State V John Babatunde Lopez (1968) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report LEWIS,J.S.C. In this appeal from the decision of Hague Ag. J. in MD/36C1967 in the Makurdi High Court on 28th August, 1967 in which he found the accused guilty of an offence contrary to section 115 (1) of the Penal Code, the point taken […]
Mallam Gano V The State (1968) LLJR-SC
Mallam Gano V The State (1968) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA, C.J.N. The appellant who was found guilty of culpable homicide punishable with death contrary to section 221 of the Penal Code and was sentenced to death has appealed to this court. The deceased who died of a fractured skull was dealt two heavy blows […]
Mahammadu Bello V The State (1968) LLJR-SC
Mahammadu Bello V The State (1968) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report COKER, J.S.C. The appellant was at the High Court Maiduguri, convicted of culpable homicide punishable with death under section 221 of the Penal Code. The case against him was that on or about the 4th day of March, 1967, at Garga Village, in Damaturu District […]
Jamil Tannous V U.k. Kirpalani And Anor (1968) LLJR-SC
Jamil Tannous V U.k. Kirpalani And Anor (1968) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report COKER,J.S.C. The appellant was the plaintiff in a suit instituted at the Lagos Magistrate’s Court (No. 595211963, Jamil Tannous v.U.K. Kirpalani, etc.). The respondents were the defendants to the action. As expressed on his writ the plaintiff claimed against the defendants:- “the sum […]
Messrs Wiedemann And Walters (Nig.) Ltd V Mojibola Oluwa And Ors (1968) LLJR-SC
Messrs Wiedemann And Walters (Nig.) Ltd V Mojibola Oluwa And Ors (1968) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report LEWIS, J.S.C. In suit No. LD/383/65 in the Lagos High Court Sowemino J., on the 31st day of March, 1966 gave judgment with costs for the plaintiff against the second defendant in terms that ‘the articles two EBA concrete […]
Alhaji Wada Kusada V Sokoto Native Authority (1968) LLJR-SC
Alhaji Wada Kusada V Sokoto Native Authority (1968) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report LEWIS, J.S.C. The plaintiff in suit No. K/114/1967 appealed to this court against the decision of Holden J. In the Kano High Court on the l0th of February, 1968 striking out the suit without costs and on the 27th of November, 1968 in […]
Dr. C.k. Manuel V Joseph Edevu (1968) LLJR-SC
Dr. C.k. Manuel V Joseph Edevu (1968) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report MADARIKAN, J.S.C. The respondent in this appeal was the plaintiff in the Lagos High Court (suit No. LD/540/1964) where he sued the defendant/appellant claiming £4,690: 14s. as special and general damages for injuries sustained by him on the 18th of November, 1962, when a […]
Lawrence Gregorio Da Costa V Stella Omowale Ikomi (Married Woman For And On Behalf Of Herself And All The Other Children Of E.b. Ogunbayo (Deceased) (1968) LLJR-SC
Lawrence Gregorio Da Costa V Stella Omowale Ikomi (Married Woman For And On Behalf Of Herself And All The Other Children Of E.b. Ogunbayo (Deceased) (1968) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report LEWIS, J.S.C. On the 4th of April, 1966 Caxton-Martins J. in the Lagos High Court in suit LD/315/65 gave judgment with 80 guineas costs in […]
Phillip Oladimeji And Anor V Madam Oshode And Anor (1968) LLJR-SC
Phillip Oladimeji And Anor V Madam Oshode And Anor (1968) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report COKER, J.S.C. The appellants who were the plaintiffs in the High Court of Lagos, suit No. LD/556/64, had sued the respondents who were the defendants claiming:- (a) Declaration of title to the piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being […]