PAUL ADAMU GALINJE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): By a writ of summons and a statement of claim both dated and filed on the 23rd December 1999, the Respondent herein claimed against the Appellant the following reliefs:-
"(i) The sums (sic) of $7,7650 (sic) (seven thousand seven hundred and sixty five US Dollars), 8,550.00 (eight thousand, five hundred and fifty pounds), and Lira 4,405,000 (four million four hundred and five thousand Lira) being the value of the goods and properties contained in the Plaintiffs baggage which was lost by the Defendant and whose total equivalent in Naira is N3,907,200,00 (three million, nine hundred and seven thousand, two hundred Naira)
(ii) The sum of $1,838,25 or N187,501.00 being the cost of return air ticket from Lagos to Amsterdam to Lagos which the Plaintiff had lost as a result of the Defendants unilateral decision to prevent the Plaintiff from stopping over at Amsterdam,
(iii) The sum of N5,000,000.00 (five million Naira) as damages f…