IKE ONYEMA AMARA & GEOFFREY ONYEJEKWU V. JIBECO NIGERIA LIMITED
(2020) JELR 112541 (CA)
Court of Appeal
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CA/A/47/2016
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30 Jun 2020
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Nigeria
Coram
ABDU ABOKI, JCA
STEPHEN JONAH ADAH, JCA
MOHAMMED BABA IDRIS, JCA
Appearances
Chukwudi Iwobi with Samuel N. Manman Esq. for the Appellant.
Luke Enelichi for the Respondent.
Judgement
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong>ABDU ASOKI, PJCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): </strong>This is an appeal against the judgment of <strong>Niger State 1-Hgh Court, in Suit No. NSHC/SD/67 /2014 </strong>, delivered on the 9th of March 2015, <strong>by Hon. Justice A. A. Bima, </strong>in favour of the Plaintiff (now Respondent), by way of the summary judgment, pursuant to <strong>Order 11 of the High Court Civil (Procedure Rules), 2012 of Niger State. </strong>His Lordship in the judgment, ordered the Defendants (now Appellants) to pay to the Respondent, jointly and severally, the sum of Four Million, Four Hundred and Eight Thousand, One Hundred and Fifty Naira only (N4,408,150.00) , being unpaid balance of the money taken from the Respondent, by the Appellants. The Respondent's claim at the Trial Court as per his Writ of Summons,</p><p style="text-align: justify">and Statement of Claim, filed on the 10th of June 2014, under the Summary Judgment procedure, was for the sum of N4, 408, 150.00 (Four Million, Four Hundred and Eight Thousand, One Hundred and Fifty Naira) only, being money taken/removed from theβ¦</p>