NONYEREM OKORONKWO, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The respondents in this appeal are husband and wife and engaged in the business of cement retail distribution. The appellants are also husband and wife with the wife of 2nd respondent engaged in retailing the bulk cement orders procured by the 2nd respondent at a market in Sagamu Ogun State.
Curiously both parties claim to be clergymen with their wives claiming to have some respectable positions or titles.
Background.
The facts as given by the respondents as garnered from their pleadings and in the judgment were that 2nd respondent Lady Evangelist Afolashade Abiodun was over seeing the cement business of the respondents by obtaining cement orders from the respondents for selling same on respondents behalf. In the course of the business, 1st appellant aforesaid obtained from the respondents Cement Order for 405 tons of Elephant Cement from the West African Portland Cement factor equaling 8,100 bags of cement.
The bags of cement …