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RINCO CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. V. VEEPEE INDUSTRIES LTD. & ANOR.

(2005) JELR 45237 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  SC.295/2001  •  4 Mar 2005  •  Nigeria

Coram
SYLVESTER UMARU ONU JSC; UMARU ATU KALGO JSC; AKINTOLA OLUFEMI EJIWUNMI JSC; NIKI TOBI JSC; DENNIS ONYEJIFE EDOZIE JSC;

Judgement

EJIWUNMI, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): By this appeal, the appellant is seeking to have this court reverse the judgment of the court below. Before that court, the appellant had appealed unsuccessfully against the ruling of the trial court which had held that the 1st respondent was improperly joined in the claim of the appellant for an order commanding the 1st respondent and their agents to withdraw any representation they might have made to the 2nd respondent that the 1st respondent has any claims to the 300 KVA transformer presently situated at Plot No. 18, Idiroko Road, Sango-Otta and a further order perpetually restraining the 1st respondent, their agents, privies and assigns from ever making any such claim to any person or authority whatsoever. Appellant further claimed the sum of N269,500.00 as special damages and the sum of N200,000.00 as general damages. The appellant, in addition to the writ of summons, also filed a 22-paragraph statement of claim, which was serveā€¦

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