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LEADERS & COMPANY LTD
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CHRISTLIEB PLC & ORS

(2016) JELR 42294 (CA)

Court of Appeal 18 May 2016 Nigeria
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- This case is an appeal against a judgment of the Federal High Court in Lagos. - The plaintiff claimed that the defendants had no right to act on behalf of the plaintiff or manage its affairs, particularly in relation to the sale of its pr

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Suit Number:CA/L/860B/11
Judges:SIDI DAUDA BAGE Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria ABIMBOLA OSARUGUE OBASEKI-ADEJUMO Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria JAMILU YAMMAMA TUKUR Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria
Counsel:B. OgungbamilaJ. Ehiedu, J.Onugwu For Appellant Rotimi Jacobs, II. E. Okoh (Miss)A. Muoka For Respondent

SIDI DAUDA BAGE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Honourable Justice J.E. Shakarho of the Federal High Court sitting at Lagos in suit No. FHC.L.CS.540/2004, delivered on the 13th of December, 2010. The Plaintiff (now 1st Respondent) at paragraph 34 of the amended statement of claim, claimed against the Defendants jointly and severally as follows:

i. A declaration that the 1st and 2nd Defendants have no right, power, mandates or jurisdiction to act for the Plaintiff or manage its affairs as Managing Director and Company Secretary respectively, particularly to the extent of dissipating, selling off, transferring or assigning to the 3rd Defendant the assets and, or immovable property of the Plaintiff and the appurtenances thereon situate, lying and being at No. 35 Creek Road, Apapa, Lagos.

ii. A declaration that the purported sale, transfer, disposition, alienation or assignment of the Plaintiffs landed property and the appurtenances t…

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