The issue determinative of this case is whether or not in view of the facts and circumstances obtained therein, is the appeal dismissible as a matter of law?
This Court by answering this singular issue will take recourse to the certified records transcribed to it to provide a clear narrative that will form the basis for our judgment.
On July 5, 2018, Attorney Isaac Jackson (petitioner), filed this petition for the writ of prohibition before our Colleague, Her Honor Jamesetta H. Wolokolie then presiding in Chambers, against the Liberia Maritime Authority (LMA) and the Government of the Republic of Liberia, represented by the Minister of Justice/Attorney General (respondents).
On May 25, 2020, the Republic of Liberia, by and through the Ministry of Justice (“informant”) instituted this bill of information against Her Honor Mardea Chenoweth, Resident Circuit Judge, 13th Judicial Circuit Court, Margibi County (“1st respondent”) and Oliver Dillon of the City of Monrovia ( “2nd respondent”) .
When this case was called for hearing, Counsellor G. Wiefueh Alfred Sayeh of the Sayeh and Sayeh Law Office, Inc. appeared for the movant. Counsellor Mamee S. Gongbah of the Liberty Law Firm appeared for the respondents.
The parties in this appeal are before this Court for the second time in a dispute arising from a banking transaction. The full account of the first litigation is recorded in the case Ecobank Liberia Limited v. Consolidated Group, Inc., Supreme Court Opinion, October Term A.D. 2018.
The movants, Comfort Ross and Yatta Ross, ask this Court to grant their motion to dismiss the Respondent Albert Z. Burnette’s appeal on ground that his surety
The substantive parties in this appeal, ECO Fuel Trading SA (ECO Fuel), appellant, and Srimex Oil and Gas Company and Mr. Musa Bility, appellees, are major participants in the oil and gas sector of Liberia, and share business relations.
On September 26, 2019, Mr. Justice Yussif D. Kaba, Associate Justice then presiding in Chambers, having entertained arguments pro et con, on a petition for the writ of prohibition, ruled thereon, granting the petition in favor of the appellee herein, the Intestate Estate of Kwia Nyene Howe.
These proceedings grow out of a petition for declaratory judgment which was summarily transferred to the Supreme Court en banc to make a determination on the purported constitutional questions raised in the petition for declaratory judgment.
This is the third time that a controversy surrounding the Intestate Estate of S.B. Nagbe, Sr., has come before the Supreme Court. The first time the Supreme Court was called upon to resolve disagreements arising from the Intestate Estate of S.B. Nagbe, Sr., was in 1982, in the case, In Re: The Intestate Estate of Nagbe v. Nagbe, 30LLR 278 (1982).
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