Just Decided Cases

CHIDUVE ONWUBE & ORS VS UDEGBUNBA NDUBA

Legalpedia Citation: (1972) Legalpedia (SC) 19611

In the Supreme Court of Nigeria

Tue Mar 21, 1972

Suit Number: S.C 686/66

CORAM


COKER JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT

FATAYI- WILLIAMS JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT

SOWEMIMO JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT


PARTIES


CHIDUVE ONWUBEMOCHA ANUMUDUOBUASI ONWUACHICHIGBOGU UDEAGALANYA APPELLANTS


RESPONDENTS


AREA(S) OF LAW



SUMMARY OF FACTS

The appellants case rested substantially on an allocation of the land in dispute to one ancestor of the respondent who had married a daughter of theirs by the name Odene; this story was expressly rejected by the learned trial judge who described it as a fairy tale and denounced it in terms not dissimilar to those employed by one of the plaintiffs witness, Emeka Nnaechi.


HELD


APPEAL DISMISSED.


ISSUES


None


RATIONES DECIDENDI


DECLARATION OF TITLE TO LAND.


.


CASES CITED


None


STATUTES REFERRED TO


None


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Esther ORIAH

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