Estoppel (72)
HELD:
"There can be no doubt that the act of the 1st respondent in filing the appeal before the Lagos Division of the lower Court was intended to set the two divisions of the Court on a collision course in order to obtain a favourable outcome.
HELD:
"Instructively, it is trite that in a plethora of cases reiterated the fundamental principles regarding.
HELD:
"It is settled law that a plea of res judicata or issue estoppel cannot be validly raised and founded on the basis of a previous judgment of a Court that finally determined a subject matter, issues and reliefs different from the subject matter, issues raised and reliefs sought for in the present case.
HELD:
"Issue estoppel on the other hand is based on the principle of law that a party is precluded from contending the contrary of any specific point which having been once distinctly put in issue has with certainty been determined against him.
HELD:
"It is trite that a decision by a Court lacking jurisdiction in a matter it delivered judgment on cannot be pleaded for estoppel per rem judicatam; such a decision being a nullity.
HELD:
"The dispute herein is largely between Rivers and Imo States.
HELD:
"... suit No. HOG/181/77 between Alphus Nkuuma (for himself and on behalf of Oguma village, Oguta) v. Joseph Otunuya Odili (for himself and behalf of Akono -Ndem family of Isukwa village, Ndoni) was not an interstate boundary dispute.
HELD:
"Instructively, the term 'res judicata', denotes a thing adjudicated or decided. An issue (question) that has been definitely settled by judicial decision.
