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ANDREW CHUKWURA NWORAH V. STERLING BANK PLC

(2017) JELR 37806 (CA)

Court of Appeal  •  CA/E/562/2013  •  31 Mar 2017  •  Nigeria

Coram
IGNATIUS IGWE AGUBE JCA; TOM SHAIBU YAKUBU JCA; JOSEPH TINE TUR JCA;

Judgement

TOM SHAIBU YAKUBU, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the judgment of the Anambra State High Court of Justice, holden at Otuocha, which was delivered on 19th June, 2013.

The appellant as the plaintiff at the trial High Court, had claimed the following reliefs against the respondent, inter alia:

a. An order that the Defendant (now Respondent) hands over all the title documents of the landed property known and called No. 8 Iheonu Street, Ozalla Layout Obosi, otherwise known as Block V. Plot 14 Ozalla Layout, Obosi to the plaintiff.

b. N10, 000.00 (Ten Million Naira) damages for wrongful detention of the plaintiff's title documents and the resultant losses of same.

The case of the appellant at the Trial Court is that he was granted an overdraft facility by the respondent to the tune of N2, 000,000.00 (Two Million Naira), and before the appellant was granted the said overdraft facility, his original title documents in respect of his landed property situate at and…

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