FEDERAL ADMINISTRATOR – GENERAL & ORS VS PAUL WILLIAM CARDOSO & ORS
August 14, 2025ISE IBU OJO V. THE STATE
August 14, 2025Legalpedia Citation: (1973) Legalpedia (SC) 43441
In the Supreme Court of Nigeria
Wed Nov 28, 1973
Suit Number: SC. 322/1973
CORAM
ELIAS, CHIEF JUSTICE, NIGERIA
EMANUEL OBIOMA OGWUEGBU, JSC. JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT (Read the Leading Judgment)
BABALAKIN,JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
PARTIES
JAMMAL STEEL STRUCTURES LTD APPELLANTS
RESPONDENTS
AREA(S) OF LAW
SUMMARY OF FACTS
The claim before the court was for the sum of N641,328.39 (Six Hundred and Forty One Thousand, Three Hundred and Twenty-eight Naira and Thirty-Nine kobo) from the defendants/appellants, being the balance due to the plaintiffs for an over-draft granted by the plaintiffs to the defendants at their Idumota branch, Lagos, in the normal course of their business as bankers to the defendants and for money paid by the plaintiffs to the defendants as banker at the latters request, which said sum the defendants have refused and/or neglected to pay in spite of repeated demands.
HELD
APPEAL DISMISSED
ISSUES
None
RATIONES DECIDENDI
DISPUTE BETWEEN A BANKER AND CUSTOMER
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CASES CITED
None
STATUTES REFERRED TO
Section 7 (1) (b) (iii) thereof) the High Court of Lagos State.
Section 7(1) (b) (iii) of the Federal Revenue Court Decree 1973 Number 13.
Section 33 of the Federal Revenue Court
Section 3 (1) of the Interpretation Act 1964).
Section 18(3) of the Interpretation Act, 1964,
Section 63(4) of the Federal Revenue Court, Decree 1973.
