CHIEF (WARI ALABO) PROF. JASPER F. JUMBO (JP) & ANOR V. WARIALABO GEORGE H. JUMBO & 13 ORS

OBANDE FESTUS OGBUINYA, J.S.C. (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This appeal quarrels with the rightness of the decision of sea the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division (hereunder labelled as “the lower Court”), Court"), coram judice: O. A. Adefope-Okojie, Y. B. Nimpar and M. B. Idris, JJCA, in Appeal No. CA/PH/166/2018, delivered on the 17th June, 2021. In its decision, the lower Court set aside the judgement of the High Court of Rivers State (the trial Court), in Suit No. PHC/47/2011, delivered on the 3rd July, 2017, wherein G. O. Omereji, J. granted the appellants' claim partly.

The synopsis of the essential facts of the case, which transformed into this appeal, are disobedient to verbosity and complexity. There is in existence the Jumbo Major House of Grand Bonny Kingdom in Rivers State of Nigeria. The Jumbo Major House has 1971 Constitution and Regulations which bind the members of the House. The appellants, alongside the first set of respondents, alleged that the eleventh and tw…