SALAMI, JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The plaintiff caused to be issued a writ of summons claiming therein against the defendant the sum of $16,100.00 or the naira equivalent of ₦208,000.00. Pleadings were filed and exchanged at further amended statement of claim and amended statement of defence and counter-claim. The plaintiff’s claim that eventually went to trial is set out immediately hereunder:-
“WHEREOF THE Plaintiff claims against the defendant as follows-
1. The sum of $16,100.00 (Sixteen Thousand, One Hundred U.S. Dollars) or in the alternative the sum of ₦208,000.00 or the current exchange rate of a dollar to local currency, whichever is the highest at the rate of 20% interest rate from January 1990 until liquidation of judgment sum.
2. The return of the generating set in the custody of Defendant.
3 An order upon the defendant to release all those personal goods earlier conveyed to the plaintiff by a Deed of Transfer made sometime in 1990.”
The alternative claim of ₦208,…