L.A. Are V Adisa And Nigerian Housing Development Society Ltd (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report COKER, J.S.C. The appellant was the plaintiff and the respondents the defendants in an action tried before Ademola J. in the High Court, Ibadan, Western Nigeria. The plaintiffs writ is endorsed as follows:- ‘The plaintiff claims against the defendants- (i)…

Lagos City Council (Trading Under The Name Of Lagos City Transport) V. S. A. J. Ogunbiyi (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA, C.J.N. The defendant/appellant runs transport service in Lagos and its environs, and it is not in dispute that the plaintiff/respondent on the 12th August, 1965 travelled in one of its buses along Ikorodu…

Bank Of America (National Trust And Savings Association) V Nigerian Travel Agencies Ltd (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report LEWIS,J.S.C. This is an appeal from the decision of Alexander J. In the Lagos High Court on the 12th October, 1964, in which he allowed the appeal of the defendants against the decision of Mr. A. R.…

Chief O.A. Fabumiyi And Another V F.a. Obaji And Another (Substituted For Madam Ibilola) (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report COKER, J.S.C.  This appeal is brought by the plaintiffs against the judgment of Fatayi Williams, J.(as he then was) sitting in the High Court, Akure, Western Nigeria. Before him the plaintiffs had claimed as follows:- (i)…

Sanni Kehinde (Mogaji Agunbiade) V Amole Ogunbunmi And Others (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, J.S.C. The plaintiff sued in the High Court of Western Nigeria (Suit No. 1/207/1961) claiming a declaration of title to land and an injunction to restrain trespass. In the writ of summons dated the 3rd August, 1961 he is described…

Anglo-canadian Cement Ltd V O. Alokolaro & Co (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, Ag. C.J.N. In this case the trial judge made an order of non-suit in the plaintiffs’ claim for damages for negligence on the ground that the plaintiffs had failed to prove that lorry No. LD 4877, which had been involved in…

Oyinlola Olufunke Obayemi V Samuel Adebayo Obayemi (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report LEWIS, J.S.C. This is an appeal against the decision of Beckley J. in the Akure High Court on the 14th of December, 1965, granting the petitioner a decree nisi of divorce on the grounds of cruelty in respect of his marriage with the…

Bishop S.C Phillips And T.K.E Phillips V R.T. Phillips (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA,C.J.N. The appellants, who were the plaintiffs in the High Court of Lagos, are executors and trustees of the will of their uncle Adolphus Phillips (deceased), who died in Lagos on or about 29th day of July,1934, with a wife and…

Ogberejeko Ogboou V Eriyota Oogha And Another (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report COKER, J.S.C. The appellant who was the defendant in an action in the High Court, Warri, Mid-West Nigeria has appealed against the judgement of that Court awarding against him in favour of the respondents damages in the sum of £25 and an injunction…

Alhaji R.A. Afolabi (Trading As Ifelodun Bros). V Polymera Industries (Nig.) (1967) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report TAYLOR, F.J. The appellant, a Storekeeper employed by Messrs. G. B. Ollivant (Nigeria) Ltd. at their Shell Depot in Ibadan, was convicted by the Chief Magistrate Ibadan on all the twelve counts on which he was charged with stealing…