If exhibit D1 was intended to be an agreement between the Imoji and the Imode compounds on the rotation of the chieftaincy between the two compounds,…

Pleadings are the body and soul of any case in a skeleton form and are built up and solidified by the evidence in support thereof. They…

I am not unaware of the well-settled principle of law that this court does not interfere with the concurrent findings of facts of two lower courts…

According to the well-known principle laid down in Kojo II v. Bonsie, the way to decide which of two plausible histories is more probable is to…

Evidence led by a party can be fully relied on by the other party either to establish his case or to damage or demolish the case…

The rule in Kojo v. Bonsie is that where parties rely on traditional history in proof of their title and the evidence of traditional history is…

Looking at the judgment in totality, it will be observed that the trial Judge misconceived the placing of the evidential burden of proof. He appeared to…

By section 14 of the Evidence Act, a custom which is not noticed judicially must be proved by evidence in court, and the burden of proof…

The respondents are bound by the pleadings and cannot at the trial be allowed by the Supreme Court or indeed any other court to set up…

There is nothing averred in the pleadings that one Uzoma became the head of Ozo or that by virtue of that he became the Diokwara of…

This principle applies only where the decisive issue was the credibility of the witnesses and not where the findings were based on evaluation of evidence as…

Where a body of men, be they Chiefs or otherwise, act as arbitrators over a dispute between two parties, their decision shall have a binding effect,…