JOSEPH OLUBUNMI KAYODE OYEWOLE, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is in respect of an appeal against the decision of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja delivered on the 13th April, 2022 by OSHO-ADEBIYI, J.
Following a failed business transaction between the parties, the Respondent took out a writ of summons against the Appellant at the lower court wherein it sought the following reliefs:
(a) A declaration that the unilateral conversion/deduction of monies paid by the Claimant to the Defendant for the supply of equipment for other purposes like storage charges, inflow-outflow charges, administration costs, preliminary costs not agreed upon by the parties is illegal, unlawful, null and void and amounted to a breach of contract.
(b) An order that the Defendant pay to the Claimant the sum of ($150,500.00) One hundred and Fifty Thousand, Five Hundred United States Dollars being the money paid by the Claimant to the Defendant for the supply of equipment but which …