GALINJE JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): By a motion ex parte dated 15 June 2004 and filed the same date the appellant herein, a company carrying out its business in Moronvia, Liberia, sought an order that the judgment of the Civil Law Court, Sixth Judicial Circuit obtained in suit No. CLD/05/01/2001 - 540, whereby it was adjudged that the respondent, a company with its registered address at 46 Marina Lagos, Nigeria, pay to the petitioner the grand total sum of $844,247.93 may be registered as a judgment of the High Court of Lagos State pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign Judgment (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act, Cap.152, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990 and enforced against the respondent.
The ruling of the lower court on the application ex parte is not found in the record of this appeal. The only evidence which shows that the application was heard and granted is an enrolment order at pages 90-91 of the record. In that order, the ex parte application was granted…