"This court will not lightly interfere with concurrent findings of fact made by the trial court and the Court of Appeal, unless such findings are perverse and utterly unreasonable."
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"Ordinarily this court ought not lightly depart from concurrent findings of facts of the two lower courts because it has no opportunity of seeing and listening to the witnesses testify....
"This court will undoubtedly interfere with concurrent findings of facts made by courts below which are shown to be perverse or to contain errors of law, substantive or procedural leading...
"It is well established principle that an appellate court will very rarely, if at all interfere with the findings of facts made by the trial court. This is because such...
"Learned counsel to the appellants has not shown that these findings of facts are perverse or unreasonable, or that they are not consistent with the justice of the case. This...
"For such findings to be interfered with by this court, exceptional circumstances must be shown by the appellants."
"Needless to say that those concurrent findings and inference of grant made by the two lower courts which have not been dented by the appellants in this court ought not...
"Even if the appellant had sought for leave of this court to raise the issues she purportedly raised in the abortive grounds of appeal, I would have refused her leave...
"Where there have been concurrent findings of the two lower courts, this court makes it a policy not to disturb them unless special circumstances include exist to warrant interference. Such...
"It is an elementary principle of law that an appellate court will not ordinarily interfere with the findings of fact made by the trial court which are supported by evidence...
"It is settled law that this court will not normally interfere with the concurrent findings of the two lower courts unless there is some miscarriage of justice or a violation...
"The attitude of this court to concurrent findings of fact of the two courts below has always been that this court will not disturb such findings unless they are shown...