Judgements Categories: High Court

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [PDF copy of this judgment can be sent to your email for N300 only. Just order through lawnigeria@gmail.com and info@lawnigeria.com or text 07067102097]   A. FAGBOLA V. A. ODEYEMI & ORS.   HIGH COURT LAGOS STATE MARCH 10, 1972 3PLR/1972/150  (HC)   BEFORE: Adefarasin J MAIN ISSUES REAL ESTATE LAW Declaration of title to land- Plaintiff and defendants deriving title to same land through the same vendors Family splitting up and selling parts of family land to individual purchasers at various times-Conflict of interest between various purchasers-Defendants’ conveyances prior to purchase of land […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [PDF copy of this judgment can be sent to your email for N300 only. Just order through lawnigeria@gmail.com and info@lawnigeria.com or text 07067102097]   BASHIRU YESUFU V. NIGERIA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY LTD. & ANOR.    HIGH COURT LAGOS STATE FEBRUARY 4, 1972 (SUIT IK/47/64) 3PLR/1972/156  (HC)   BEFORE: Adebiyi J   MAIN ISSUES DEBTOR AND CREDITOR REAL ESTATE Borrower and lender-Action by borrower to set aside sale of property-Fraud and irregularities in conduct of sale alleged-Plaintiff conceding failure to prove fraud at trial-Particulars of irregularities alleged not given in statement of claim-Attempt by […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [PDF copy of this judgment can be sent to your email for N300 only. Just order through lawnigeria@gmail.com and info@lawnigeria.com or text 07067102097]   ASHABI KOGBE V. JOSEPH IKUPOLOWO   HIGH COURT LAGOS STATE March 10, 1972 (Suit LD/738/70) CWLR (1972) 12 3PLR/1972/80 (HC) OTHER CITATIONS  (1972) NCLR 103     BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP: George J   REPRESENTATION Awoyinfa for the plaintiff. Aibinu for the defendant.   OTHER ISSUES TORT AND PERSONAL INJURY:– Negligence:– Bailment of goods – Liability of a bailee for valuable consideration – Onus of proof of lack of negligence […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [PDF copy of this judgment can be sent to your email for N300 only. Just order through lawnigeria@gmail.com and info@lawnigeria.com or text 07067102097]   AJALA V. ADELAGUN   HIGH COURT, CIVIL DIVISION, LAGOS STATE 22ND MARCH 1979 3PLR/1979/2 (HC) OTHER CITATIONS (1979) 3 LRN 28   BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP: DESALU, J.   OTHER ISSUES TORT AND PERSONAL INJURY:– Defamation – Slander – Meaning – Words ordinarily deemed to amount to slander – Imputation of prostitution and being an ex-convict – Whether judicial notice of a common social practice can be taken by court […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [PDF copy of this judgment can be sent to your email for N300 only. Just order through lawnigeria@gmail.com and info@lawnigeria.com or text 07067102097]   GANIYU AGUNBIADE V. OKUNOGA AND CO   HIGH COURT OF LAGOS, LD/56A/60 3PLR/1961/7 (HC-L) 18th January, 1961   OTHER CITATIONS   BEFORE: DE LESTANG, C.J.   MAIN ISSUES PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE: Magistrates’ Court Practice and Procedure – Inherent owers of a court to review its own judgment where shown to be irregular or obtained by misrepresentation-Inherent powers of the Court – Magistrates’ Court (Lagos) Ordinance, Cap. 113, s. 46-Magistrates’ […]

  POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [PDF copy of this judgment can be sent to your email for N300 only. Just order through lawnigeria@gmail.com and info@lawnigeria.com or text 07067102097]   AKIN DENTON V. MUIBATU ABEJE & ANOR.   HIGH COURT (Suit LD/450/1970) 3PLR/1972/46 (HC)   BEFORE: ODESANYA J.,   BETWEEN: AKIN DENTON AND MUIBATU ABEJE & ANOR.   REPRESENTATION Adewole for the plaintiff. Olaogun for the first defendant. Second defendants not represented.   MAIN ISSUES TORT AND PERSONAL INJURY:- Motor vehicle accident – Negligence – Where proved – Heads of special damages – Calculation of – Nature of […]

POLICY, PRACTICE AND PUBLISHING, LAW REPORTS  3PLR [PDF copy of this judgment can be sent to your email for N300 only. Just order through lawnigeria@gmail.com and info@lawnigeria.com or text 07067102097]   KEGAN D. BRAIDS V. BEATRICE BRAIDS   HIGH COURT LAGOS STATE March 6, 1972 Suit HD/78/71 CWLR (1972) 6   OTHER CITATIONS 3PLR/1972/44 (HC)     BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP: Adefarasin J   REPRESENTATION Sodipo for the petitioner. No appearance for the respondent.   MAIN ISSUES FAMILY LAW:- A husband’s petition for dissolution of marriage on the ground that the marriage had broken down irretrievably – Wife deserted marriage for […]