ADEYEMO & ANOR
V.
AKINTOLA

(2003) JELR 44765 (CA)

Court of Appeal · CA/I/204/2000 · 27 Oct 2003 · Nigeria
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Adeyemo v. Akintola [2004] 12 NWLR (Pt.887)390

CORAM

MURITALA AREMU OKUNOLA Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria SAKA ADEYEMI IBIYEYE Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria VICTORA AIMEPOMO OYELEYE OMAGE Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria

Ratio Decidendi

Core Terms ^Beta

plaintiff

thief

respondent

words

1st defendant

appellants

2nd defendant

learned trial judge

mere vulgar abuse

issues

house of the 1st defendant

defamatory words

trial court

2nd defendants

false imprisonment

leading judgment

said words

father of the plaintiff

ile babafila ajawa

plaintiffs character

said issues

word thief

1st defence witness

actionable appear

alleged defamatory words

alleged publication of a defamatory statement

breach of the plaintiffs

defendants house

english interpretation of the word

entrance door of the defendants

entry of the plaintiff

facts of the case

first defendant

fundamental rights

general rule

judgment of jimoh

members of the defendant

naira damages

noise of the parties

ogbomoso high court

oral evidence

resolve issues

sets of issues

state of tension antagonism

time of the alleged slander

unlawful imprisonment of the plaintiff

word ole

OMAGE, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the judgment of Jimoh, J delivered in the Ogbomoso High Court on 8th December, 1996. It is in a claim by the respondent against the appellants for the sum of five million Naira damages jointly and or severally:

"for defaming the plaintiffs character at Ile Babafila Ajawa, in the afternoon of 26/12/95; when the plaintiff went to look for his father and the 1st defendant accused the plaintiff of not saying (to him) "Kabiyesi." On the entry of the plaintiff to the house of the 1st defendant. The first defendant ordered the 2nd defendant to lock up the entrance door of the defendants' house and both of them started to shout thief, thief, thief, thief on the plaintiff. While shouting thief, thief on the plaintiff, which shouting attracted all the members of the defendant's household and several persons in the environs trooped out and stood around, apparently to assist in catching the thief.

(11) ₦200,000.00 damages agains…

ADEYEMO & ANOR V. AKINTOLA

ADEYEMO & ANOR
V.
AKINTOLA