"The law is that an appellate court will not ordinarily interfere with the findings of the trial court except in circumstances such as where the trial court has not made...
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"It is not the practice of this court to interfere with such concurrent findings of the two lower courts except where such findings are perverse or unsupported by evidence or...
"This appeal is on concurrent findings of the trial court and the Court of Appeal. Ordinarily this court will not interfere with the decisions of these courts except where there...
"This court will not disturb such concurrent findings of fact unless a substantial error apparent on the face of the record of proceedings is shown or when such findings are...
"This court will not ordinarily interfere with such findings unless special circumstances are shown to justify such interference. These circumstances have been explained in various decisions of this court and...
"This court ought not to disturb or lightly depart from concurrent findings of fact of the two lower courts as it has no opportunity of seeing and listening to the...
"Where the trial Judge has failed to draw the proper inference from the evidence before him, the court below was in as good a position to draw the proper inference."
"Where the trial court based its exercise of the discretion on matters extraneous to the issues before him, or failed to take relevant facts into consideration, the exercise of the...
"The law, however permits and indeed expects a Court of Appeal in appropriate circumstances to look at the evidence on record and make an objective finding of fact in place...
"It is true that the findings of fact made by a trial court are entitled to respect by an appellate court when it is clear that the trial court has...
"Where a court of trial, unquestionably evaluates the evidence and makes definite findings of fact, which are fully supported by such evidence and are not perverse, it is not the...
"The evaluation of evidence is the primary responsibility of the trial court, and an appellate court will only interfere with a finding of fact made by a trial Judge where...