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CHUKWUJEKWU SYLVESTER ADIKWULU & ORS V. OLISA EMEKA CHIKEND

(2018) JELR 39319 (CA)

Court of Appeal  •  CA/E/482/2014  •  14 Feb 2018  •  Nigeria

Coram
HUSSEIN MUKHTAR JCA; MUHAMMED LAWAL SHUAIBU JCA; FREDERICK OZIAKPONO OHO JCA;

Appearances
P.S. Mwajagu, Esq. For Appellant S.A. Obianiko, Esq. For Respondent

Judgement
<p>HUSSEIN MUKHTAR, J.C.A.(Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the judgment of the Anambra State Customary Court of Appeal sitting at Awka, coram: Hon. Justice S.N. Okoye, Hon. Justice Jude Obiora and Hon. Justice C.E. Chukwurah delivered on Monday the 14th April 2014, wherein the Respondents appeal was allowed by Court below after striking out issue A and resolving issues B and C in favour of the Respondent herein (the Appellant at the lower Court). </p><p>The Appellants were dissatisfied with that decision and thus filed a Notice of Appeal on 30th June 2014 premised upon a lone ground of Appeal thus: </p><p>The Learned Judges of the Customary Court of Appeal of Anambra State erred in Law when they failed to dismiss the Appellant&#x27;s Appeal by determining, without jurisdiction, issue &#x27;A&#x27; which did not arise from ground (1) on denial of fair hearing and came to a perverse decision occasioning a gross miscarriage of Justice.</p><p>PARTICULARS OF ERROR</p><p>a. The competence and jurisdiction of th…</p>

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