JOHNNY
V.
EDOJA

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 , …