"Where there are admitted facts or uncontradicted facts on the record, in respect of which a trial court failed to draw a conclusion, a Court of Appeal is at liberty...
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"It is not right for the appellate court to interfere with the trial Court's finding of fact unless the finding is not supported by evidence, or it is perverse or...
"The Court below having heard the appeal and allowed it ought to have made consequential orders on the relief sought by the plaintiff/appellant from the Court of first instance."
"When it is stated that the circumstances or conditions for granting a stay should be special or strong we take it as involving a consideration of some collateral circumstances and...
"Where the character of the land, the subject matter of litigation, would be radically and irrevocably altered (e.g., by erecting permanent buildings on agricultural land), and such alteration would render...
"Under Section 16 of the Court of Appeal Act, 1976 and Order 26 of the Court of Appeal Rules, 1981, that court is vested with power to enter a verdict...
"The law is that such applications, which are meant to ensure that the appellant's case is properly and fully placed before the Court, are usually granted unless they are brought...
"The purpose of grounds of appeal is to indicate clearly the areas of complaints against the judgment appealed against and it is always in the interest of justice to allow...
"This court, as a general rule, will not normally disturb or upset concurrent findings unless there is some miscarriage of justice or a violation of some principles of law or...
"This Court will not disturb such findings unless a substantial error apparent on the face of the record of proceeding is shown or such findings are perverse."
"What the learned trial Judge did on 9th May 1991 was to foist on the Court of Appeal a fait accompli thereby rendering it impossible for that court to arrive...
"This rule provides... It permits of one order and that is the dismissal of the appeal for failure to file the briefs... The provision of Order 3 rule 20(4) of...