OBANDE FESTUS OGBUINYA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is an offshoot of the decision of the High Court of Osun State, sitting at Ilesa (hereinafter referred to as the lower Court), coram judice: W. O. Akanbi. J, in Suit No. HIL/6/2010, delivered on 29th February, 2016. Before the lower Court, the appellants and the respondent were the defendants and the claimant respectively.
The facts of the case, which transfigured into the appeal, are submissive to brevity and simplicity. In respondents bid to get an alternative source of water supply for its production business, it engaged, through its foreign technical partners BRGM Services France, the service of borehole drilling engineer in France, Mr. Lallier Serge, to provide technical specifications as the base for drilling its borehole. The technical information and data provided by the appellants tallied with those generated by Mr. Lallier Serge who recommended them for the drilling of the respondents boreholes. The…