<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>OBANDE FESTUS OGBUINYA, J.S.C. (Delivering the Lead Judgment)</strong>: This appeal probes into the rightness of the decision of the Court of Appeal, Asaba Division (hereunder addressed as &quot;the lower Court&quot;), coram judice: M. A. Danjuma, B. A. Georgewill and A. O. Obaseki-Adejumo, JJCA, in Appeal No. CA/AS/297/2019, delivered on the 8th September, 2021. In its judgment, the lower Court set aside the decision of the High Court of Delta State (the trial Court), in Suit No. OUHC/26/2015, delivered on the 21st February, 2019, wherein C. E. Achilefu, J. granted the appellant&#x27;s claim. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The synopses of the material facts of the case, which transfigured into the appeal, are disobedient complexity. The appellant was the owner of a property, which comprised a story building, lying, situate and known as No. 1 Ogudu Lane, Off Agomate Street, Ovwian in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State. In April, 2014, the appellant and his deceased partner, Rufus Onaemoh, won a sub-contract from a contractor to the …</p>