MOHAMMED MUSTAPHA, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the decision of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja of the 6th March, 2014 Coram M.M. Dodo, J, by an Amended Notice of Appeal filed on the 8th of October, 2014, and deemed properly filed by an order of this Court on the 20th day of May, 2015 on the following grounds, shorn of their particulars:
GROUND ONE:
That the learned trial judge erred in law when he entered judgment in favour of the 1st respondent in the sum of ₦250,000,000.00 against the appellants as general damages for negligent misrepresentation when the said 1st respondent had failed to plead negligence, enumerate the particulars of negligence and/or state the duty of care owed her by the appellant in his counterclaim relied upon as required by law.
GROUND TWO:
The learned trial judge erred in law when he wholly relied on a hearsay evidence in absolute disregard to the provision of Section 38 of the Evidence Act to hold that t…