RHODES-VIVOUR, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): By way of a writ of summons filed on the 7th day of December 1999, before the Kogi State High Court holden at Ajaokuta, in Suit No: KGS/AS/8/99, the respondent as plaintiff claimed from the appellant as defendant the sum of N5m compensation for the loss of his right eye.
Alternatively the same amount for wrongful termination of employment.
Pleadings were ordered in the suit and were duly settled, filed and exchanged. At the subsequent trial, the plaintiff testified and called one witness in support of his claim. The defendant called three witnesses. A total of twenty-one documents were admitted as exhibits.
The suit was tried at the Ajaokuta High Court presided over by Hon. Justice R. Okpanachi. On the 23rd of January 2003, the Learned trial Judge gave Judgment for the plaintiff awarding N135,000:00K as General damages.
It is necessary at this stage that I set out the facts as pleaded by the parties and the findings of the learned …