MR. UBI SOLOMON UBI & ANOR V. MR. PATRICK OTU UBI

IBRAHIM MOHAMMED MUSA SAULAWA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The present appeal is consequent upon the ruling of the High Court of Cross River State, holden at Ugep Judicial Division, delivered on October 31, 2013 in Suit No, HUG/30/2013. By the said ruling, the Court below, coram E. E. Ita, J; dismissed the Appellants' suit seeking to set aside the consent judgment delivered in Suit No. HUG/31/2010 on October 31, 2012. Aggrieved by the said decision, the Appellants filed the notice of appeal thereof in the Court below on November 5, 2013.

BACKGROUND FACTS

On August 19, 2013, the Appellants filed the instant suit in the Court below thereby seeking against the Respondent inter alia some declaratory reliefs:

''a. An Order setting aside the purported consent judgment delivered in Suit No. HUG/31/2010 by Honourable Justice Michael Edem of the High Court of Cross River State sitting in Ugep on the 31st October, 2012 and to set down the case HUG/31/2010 for hearing on the judgments…