JACOB OLORUNMEYITOKU V. THE STATE
August 7, 2025CHRISTIAN NWOSISI V. THE STATE
August 7, 2025Legalpedia Citation: (1976) Legalpedia (SC) 12211
In the Supreme Court of Nigeria
Fri Jun 4, 1976
Suit Number: SC. 14/1974
CORAM
ALEXANDER, JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
SOWEMIMO, JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
MADARIKAN, JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
PARTIES
CHIEF DANIEL ALLISON IBULUYA LAZARUS CHUAKIENKA APPOLOS PUAYEFIKA KILARI IYO OSIKIBO IWO (For themselves and representing members of Ibuluya house of Okrika Town, Degema Division APPELLANTS
RESPONDENTS
AREA(S) OF LAW
SUMMARY OF FACTS
The respondents brought this action for trespass, damages and injunction to restrain the appellant from further trespass on their lands which was granted by the trial court. This appeal inter alia challenges the said decision on the ground of wrongful admission of evidence.
HELD
The court held that although the evidence of the court clerk was wrongly admitted by the trial Judge it did not affect his mind to the extent of causing him to arrive at a wrong decision.
ISSUES
None.
RATIONES DECIDENDI
WRONGFUL ADMISSION OF EVIDENCE-
The wrongful admission of evidence shall not of itself be a ground for the reversal of any decision in any case where it shall appear to the court on appeal that the evidence so admitted cannot reasonably be held to have affected the decision and that such decision would have been the same if such evidence had not been admitted. Per D. A. R. ALEXANDER, CJN.
CASES CITED
Chief Sokpui v. Chief Agbozo (1951) 13 WACA 241 at page 242
STATUTES REFERRED TO
