BODE RHODES-VIVOUR, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeal delivered on the 12th day of June, 2003, wherein that court allowed the appeal and ordered a rehearing of the third party claim before another judge of the Enugu State High Court other than the learned trial Chief Judge,
The 1st appellant as plaintiff in Suit No, E428/99, sued the 2nd appellant as defendant. Trial was in the Enugu High Court, Enugu State. Ugwu CJ (as he then was) presided. The plaintiff claimed the sum of₦46M from the defendant. The sum was debt due to the plaintiff which became payable from a contract agreement dated the 15th of June, 1998. The plaintiff further claimed 25% compound interest on the sum from 20th day of December 1998 till judgment and post judgment interest of 10%. The defendant admitted liability but claimed that its default in paying its debt was due to the negligence of its bankers, UBA PLC.
On 20/3/2000, the plaintiff filed Motion …