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Both parties pleaded estimates by engineers, and both parties averred to rely on the estimates, the appellant's estimates of repairs were admitted in evidence without objection…

Failure of the defendant to challenge the items claimed does not lessen the requirement of the strict proof on the plaintiff. … The mere fact that…

A special damage is such a loss that will not normally be presumed as the natural consequence of the defendant's fault, but which depends on the…

The nature of the pleading and the evidence must establish the entitlement to such damages which will immediately lend to the measurement and quantification of the…

The principles upon which an appellate court acts in an appeal against the quantum of damages are well settled and were stated thus by Greer, LJ…

The parties having by their evidence admitted that there is only one No. 17 Olusola Street, Ikate Surulere at every material time the burden to prove…

To found a plea of estoppel per rem judicatam, the defendant/respondent had to satisfy the court that: (1) The parties were the same; (2) That the…

A judgment between the same parties over the same subject-matter and issues is forever binding on their privies not because the judgment is right.

Other factors which should be considered in assessing damages in libel cases are social standing of the plaintiff and the rate of inflation which has adversely…

It must be reiterated here that every libel is of itself a wrong in regard to which the law imputes general damages. If a plaintiff proves…

An award must be adequate to assuage for the injury to the plaintiff's reputation. Indeed, it must atone for the assaults on the plaintiff's character and…

In the instant case leading to this appeal, the evidence of the Respondent ... which was not controverted in evidence by the Appellants ... It is…