UZO I. NDUKWE-ANYANWU, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court of Cross River State sitting in Calabar delivered on 18th February, 2010 in suit No HC/285/2000. The appellant in this appeal was the Plaintiff in the court below. He sued the Respondent as Defendant and claimed as follows in his Amended Statement of Claim dated 23rd June, 2003.
(i) A declaration that the only binding, valid and legally enforceable contract between the parties herein is that wherein the Plaintiff was to pay N200,000.00 by unagreed installment and no time bar to the Defendant for the purchase of No.13 Edet Eyo Crescent Calabar.
(ii) A declaration that parties herein having mutually agreed that Defendant was to sell the property at No. 13 Edet Eyo Crescent, Calabar to the Plaintiff for N200,000.00 payable by installment, the unilateral and capricious increase of the purchase price by N500,000.00, by the Defendant when Plaintiff had paid a total of N1…