JOHNNY
V.
EDOJA

(2006) JELR 50937 (CA)

Court of Appeal · CA/B/8/2004 · 13 Dec 2006 · Nigeria

CORAM

ZAINAB ADAMU BULKACHUWA JCA (Presided) STANLEY SHENKO ALAGOA JCA (Read the Lead Judgment) GEORGE OLADEINDE SHOREMI JCA

Core Terms ^Beta

respondent

undefended list

general cause list

learned trial judge

delta state

appellant’s affidavit

issues

liquidated sum

stolen car

civil procedure

sum of n575,000.00

appellant’s brief

award of interest

laws of the defunct bendel state

high court

mercedes benz

said car

suit no. w

warri high court

award of n575,000.00

cars

court of appeal

lead judgment

notice of appeal

respondent’s brief

trial judge

affidavit disclosinga defence

appellant a

appellant take notice

belgium cars

car importers

facts of this case

following facts

issues of law

learned trial judgment

magistrates’ court

mercedes benz v boot

next hearing date

notice of intention

onan allegation of the commission of a crime

purchase price of the mercedes benz v

subject matter of the plaintiff

such cars

support of claim

support of the plaintiff

terms of his claims

transfer of matters

trial court engagedin

value of purchase of the said car

ALAGOA JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of K. O. Odiete-Georgemann J. sitting at the Warri High Court in Delta State in suit No. W/143/2002, James A. Johnny v. J. Johnson Edoja which was delivered on the 23rd May, 2003. The facts of this case as contained on page 1 of the appellant’s brief of argument and also adopted by the respondent as a fair presentation of what transpired culminating in this appeal are that the appellant who was the defendant at the trial court engagedin the importation andsale offairly used cars otherwise called Belgium cars. Sometime in August 2001, he sold one of such cars, a Mercedes Benz V. Boot 230 which the appellant had himself earlier purchased, complete with all importation documents from one of the car importers at the Apapa Port in Lagos to the respondent.About four or five months after the appellant sold the Mercedes Benz 230 VBoot car to the respondent, some policemen from Panti in Lagos invaded Warri , …

JOHNNY V. EDOJA

JOHNNY
V.
EDOJA