TRANSKOMPLET (NIGERIA) LTD.
V.
GALADINIA
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MUNTAKA-COOMASSIE, J .C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The action leading to this appeal was commenced at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja hereinafter called trial court. There the plaintiff, herein respondent, claiming as per writ of summons damages against the defendant, now appellant, in the sum of N1,995,000.00 (one million, nine hundred and ninety five thousand naira) as special and general damages arising from the escape of rock pellets through blasting by the appellant. The said respondent's house was located at Asokoro Residential District. The defendant was a civil construction engineering firm awarded the contract by the Federal Government of Nigeria to construct the access roads within the Asokoro District, Abuja, The construction of the said roads involved the blasting of rocks to make way for the access ways. It was in the cause of blasting of rocks within the vicinity where the plaintiff's house was located that the cause or action arose.
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