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OZOMARO & ORS
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OZOMARO & ANOR

(2014) JELR 42214 (CA)

Court of Appeal 28 Mar 2014 Nigeria
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- The dispute centered on the Will of Dr. Christian Olufemi Ozomaro (deceased), an indigene of Ozoro, Delta State, who died on 15 June 2004; the plaintiff (1st Respondent), his eldest son, challenged the validity of certain devises in the W

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Suit Number:CA/B/336/2010
Judges:HELEN MORONKEJI OGUNWUMIJU JCA AYOBODE OLUJIMI LOKULO-SODIPE JCA TOM SHAIBU YAKUBU JCA
Counsel:Patrick Oganwu with A. Odhigbo For Appellant John Okoriko with Henry Obafemi for the 1st Respondent For Respondent

AYOBODE OLUJIMI LOKULO-SODIPE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the judgment delivered on 23/3/2010 by the High Court of Delta State holden in Ozoro Judicial Division (hereafter simply referred to as "the lower Court") presided over by Hon. Justice E. I. Oritsejafor (hereafter simply referred to as "the learned trial Judge"). In its judgment, the lower Court found the claims of the Plaintiff (now 1st Respondent) before it to have succeeded in part and consequently made some declarations and an order of perpetual injunction in favour of the 1st Respondent.

The instant case was contested by all the parties on record on pleadings which they filed and exchanged. Learned counsel for the 1st Respondent in cataloguing the pleadings upon which the case was contested before the lower court made reference to a 2nd Amended Statement of Claim filed by the 1st Respondent and which is on pages 10-16 of the records. Suffice it to say that it is an Amended Statement of…

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