OGUNTADE JSC (Delivering the Lead Judgment): At the Mbano/Etiti High Court of Imo State, the appellant as the plaintiff claimed against the respondents as the defendants the following reliefs:
“(a) Declaration that the purported dismissal of the plaintiff by the defendants, as contained in a letter dated 17th July, 1991, as a dealer of the defendants’ products is unlawful and wrongful.
(b) ₦20,000,000.00 (two million naira) damages for the said unlawful and wrongful dismissal.
(c) An order for the return of the plaintiff’s air conditioner, deep freezer, surface tank, drums, furniture, spare computer, rotary pump, drum hangers, wash-hand basin which the defendants have wrongfully detained at Ehime Mbano. The defendants have in spite of plaintiff’s repeated demands refused to return the said things and have wrongfully detained and still detains same or in default pay the sum of ₦589,750.00 (five hundred and eighty nine thousand seven hundred and fifty naira) being the value of the said…