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ADIKWULU & ORS
V.
CHIKEND

(2018) JELR 39319 (CA)

Court of Appeal 14 Feb 2018 Nigeria
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Suit Number:CA/E/482/2014
Judges:HUSSEIN MUKHTAR Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria MUHAMMED LAWAL SHUAIBU Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria FREDERICK OZIAKPONO OHO Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria
Counsel:P.S. Mwajagu, Esq. For Appellant S.A. Obianiko, Esq. For Respondent

HUSSEIN MUKHTAR, J.C.A.(Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the judgment of the Anambra State Customary Court of Appeal sitting at Awka, coram: Hon. Justice S.N. Okoye, Hon. Justice Jude Obiora and Hon. Justice C.E. Chukwurah delivered on Monday the 14th April 2014, wherein the Respondents appeal was allowed by Court below after striking out issue A and resolving issues B and C in favour of the Respondent herein (the Appellant at the lower Court).

The Appellants were dissatisfied with that decision and thus filed a Notice of Appeal on 30th June 2014 premised upon a lone ground of Appeal thus:

The Learned Judges of the Customary Court of Appeal of Anambra State erred in Law when they failed to dismiss the Appellant's Appeal by determining, without jurisdiction, issue 'A' which did not arise from ground (1) on denial of fair hearing and came to a perverse decision occasioning a gross miscarriage of Justice.

PARTICULARS OF ERROR

a. The competence and jurisdiction of th…

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