HELEN MORONKEJI OGUNWUMIJU, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court of Anambra State, Onitsha Judicial Division, delivered by Hon. Justice A. O. Okuma on 2/5/2013.
The facts that led to this Appeal are that the Respondent as Plaintiff at the lower Court instituted an action against the Appellants as Defendants via a summary judgment procedure under Order 11 of the High Court of Anambra State (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2006, claiming the sum of N27.53m (Twenty Seven Million Five Hundred and Thirty Thousand Naira) being the sum outstanding of his legal fee.
The case of the Respondent as Plaintiff at the trial Court was that sometime in the year 2009, the Respondent drafted an agreement between the 1st Appellant and the Enugu State Government for the Appellants. It was about 8.pm and the Respondents secretary had closed for work so he gave the handwritten agreement to the 1st Appellant who was in company of one Franz Onuorah to type and…