Monthly Archive: February 2025
Jane Hodge Davis v. Maria Yangbe (02/18/2025)
This appeal grew out of an action of ejectment instituted by the appellee herein, Maria D. Johnson Yangbe, through her husband, M. Kron Yangbe, filed on January 30, 2014, before the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court for Montserrado County against the appellant, Gertrude Hodge. The appellee’s five-count ejectment action alleged substantially that the appellant had encroached upon her one acre of land lying and situated on Duport Road, Paynesville City, Montserrado County, Liberia, which the appellee had purchased from the Republic of Liberia in 1964 before traveling to the United States of America. Appellee further averred that upon her
JAMES KOLLIE V. HER HON. SERENA GARLAWOLU ET AL(02/18/2025)
This is an appeal from a chambers’ ruling rendered by our distinguished colleague, Mr. Justice Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay, Sr., then presiding in chambers, granting a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari prayed for by the appellee, James Kollie.
The facts in this case show that the grand jury of Montserrado County, sitting in the August A.D. 2020 Term of Court, indicted the appellee for the crime of Statutory Rape. Regular trial was had in the case, and the trial jury sitting therein returned a Hung Verdict, in which seven (7) of the twelve (12) trial jurors voted not guilty, and
Consolidated Group Inc. v. SATCOM et. al. (02/18/2025)
On November 4, 2019, Consolidated Group Inc., the appellant herein, by and thru its Chief Executive Officers, Mr. Simeon Freeman, instituted an action of damages for wrong by attachment against NANASAT Digital Television, SATCOM Communication Services, K3 Telecom Liberia, and Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) as defendants, seeking to recover damages totaling US$5.1 million for injury/losses it sustained as a result of the defendants’ infringement of its content rights granted to it by Multi Choice Africa and Super Sports, to screen live broadcasts of the English Premier League and Spanish Football, La Liga Football games, in Liberia.
In its twenty-seven (27)
Meridian BIAO Lib. Ltd. v. Cllr. Benedict Sannoh (02/17/2025)
This matter comes before us from the Debt Court for Montserrado County on account of a judgment rendered in favor of the Appellee, Counselor Benedict F. Sannoh in the tone of US$163,800(One Hundred Sixty Three Thousand Eight Hundred US Dollars) against the appellant, the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL), which took seized of Meridian BIAO Bank Liberia Limited under a Receivership. It is from the final judgment of the Debt Court that the appellant excepted and announced an appeal before this court en banc.
In order to get a full appreciation of the history of this matter, we take recourse
John F. Kennedy Medical Center v. Karen G. Sehkehporh(02/17/2025)
In August 2020, Karen Gaydou Sehkehporh, appellee herein filed a twenty-two (22) count complaint action of damages for wrong in the Sixth Judicial Circuit Civil Law Court, Montserrado County, alleging that the John F. Kennedy Medical Center, appellant herein, had, thru its doctors, acted negligently in conducting a surgery on her person which led to multiple life threatening complications which forced her to undergo subsequent tests and multiple other surgeries at varying medical facilities which caused her huge financial constraints and caused her huge mental anguish and emotional distress and has left her in a state of mental and physical
JUDICIAL INQUIRY COMMISSION REPORT ON JUDGE SCHEAPLOR R. DUNBAR (02/17/2025)
Mr. Christopher A. Gittens filed a complaint before the then Chief Justice, His Honor Francis S. Korkpor, Sr., against His Honor Judge Scheaplor R. Dunbar, then assigned at Circuit Judge, Civil Law Court, Montserrado County. In his complaint, he alleged that in November 2018, the respondent judge ruled in his favor in an ejectment case involving 25 acres of land; pursuant to the ruling, the court placed the complainant in possession of the property with the aid of the Liberia National Police; that to his utmost surprise, the respondent judge reversed the said ruling, dispossess him and turned the property
IN RE GEC INVESTIGATION ON CLLR. SAYCHEE SOKAN(02/17/2025)
On the 3rd day of July, A. D. 2023, the complainant, Mrs. Stephanie Randall, filed a complaint before the Chief Justice of the Honorable Supreme Court against Counselor Denise S. Sokan. The complainant alleged in her complaint that she hired the legal services of Counselor Denise S. Sokan to represent her interest in divorce proceedings instituted against her by her husband, Mr. Augustine P. Randall, Jr. She further averred that during the hearing of the matter, Cllr. Sokan exhibited a lack of critical communication and other acts of incompetence that affected the outcome of the proceedings; the court records retrieved
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