Category: 2025 Opinins

Mamade M. Kamara vs. Mr. Batune Keita (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Mamade M. Kamara vs. Mr. Batune Keita (08/14/2025)

This review emanates from an ejectment action filed by Batune Keita, the appellee, plaintiff below, represented by his son and attorney-in-fact, Mr. Mohammed Tanji Keita, against Co-appellant Mamadee M. Kamara, and all others under his authority.

The appellee alleged in his complaint that in 1989, his father, Mr. Batune Keita, acquired one-acre of land along the Monrovia-Kakata Highway from Charles S. B. Watkins which was registered and probated according to law; that the subject land is an adjoining property with that of the co-appellant Mamade M. Kamara; however, co-appellant Kamara has encroached and erected structures on the appellee’s portion of

Varney Mambu Dennis, the Intestate Estate of David Coleman v. Intestate Estate of James Morris (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Gbeisay / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Varney Mambu Dennis, the Intestate Estate of David Coleman v. Intestate Estate of James Morris (08/14/2025)

This case originated in the Paynesville Magisterial Court when the Intestate Estate of James Morris by and thru its Administrator, Richard B. Quadeh, appellee herein instituted an action of summary proceedings to recover possession of real property from the appellants. Upon assignment for hearing, Varney Mambu Dennis, the Intestate Estate of David Coleman represented by its Administrator De Bonis Non, David A. Garnett, Ambrose, Leroy Logan, et. al, appellants herein, showed up and presented a title deed and the magistrate dismissed the case claiming that title was in question and advised the appellee to file an ejectment action in the

International Bank Liberia vs. Mr. Massaquoi M. Kamara (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

International Bank Liberia vs. Mr. Massaquoi M. Kamara (08/14/2025)

This appeal calls for a review of a Chambers ruling of our colleague, now of sainted memory, Mr. Justice Joseph N. Nagbe, in which he granted the writ of certiorari prayed for by the appellee, the International Bank (Liberia) Limited (IBB), rescinding the erroneous ruling of Judge Peter W. Gbenewelleh in a petition for foreclosure of mortgage filed by the appellee.

The writ of certiorari centered around an uncontested error said to have been committed by His Honor, Judge Peter W. Gbenewelleh in a ruling made during the December 2015 Term of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court, Montserrado

Gabriel C. Gweh and Marron Y. Gweh vs. Augustine Jah (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Gbeisay / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Gabriel C. Gweh and Marron Y. Gweh vs. Augustine Jah (08/14/2025)

In this motion to dismiss, Gabriel C. Gweh and Marron Y. Gweh, movants herein have prayed this Court to dismiss the respondent’s appeal on grounds that the respondent has abandoned his appeal, and that said abandonment warrants a dismissal by this Court. It is prudent that we consider the facts and circumstances of this case at bar to make a just and legal determination.

The facts relevant to this case as culled from the records before this Court reveal that this case originated from the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court “B” for Montserrado County. The movant, plaintiff below filed an

G. Wiefueh Alfred Sayeh vs. The Liberia Telecommunications Authority (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Gbeisay / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

G. Wiefueh Alfred Sayeh vs. The Liberia Telecommunications Authority (08/14/2025)

The facts in this case are clearly outlined which present a question of whether the trial court erred in dismissing the appellant’s case during the disposition of law issues instead of allowing it to go to the jury. Before determining the said issue, it is prudent that we outline the relevant facts as it relates to the determination of this case.

The appellant herein, Counsellor G. Wiefueh Alfred Sayeh was employed by the appellee on November 1, 2007 as General Counsel and served in the said capacity for four years until he was dismissed on July 27, 2012 by the

Ministry of Mines & Energy v. T. David Sluward et al. (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Yuo / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Ministry of Mines & Energy v. T. David Sluward et al. (08/14/2025)

The appellees herein, T. David Sluward, Abraham Kamara, and Mohammed Kamara, are all holders of a Class “C” mining license, issued to them by the appellant herein, the Government of Liberia, by and thru the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
We observed that the appellees who were initially the petitioners, designated the Minister of Mines and Energy, et al. as the respondents, now appellant. Noting this erroneous designation, we state herein from the onset that unless a minister or an agent of a Government Agency is being sued in his personal capacity, he/she should not be designated as a party, as

Mariam Pauline Ammons v. The Intestate Estate of Browne (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Yuo / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Mariam Pauline Ammons v. The Intestate Estate of Browne (08/14/2025)

The appellants, Mariam Pauline et al., are before this Court based upon an appeal from the final ruling of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court, Montserrado County, in an action of ejectment instituted by the appellee herein, the Intestate Estate of William E. Browne.
The appellants have presented for our review, a six (6) count bill of exceptions which they believe constitute reversible errors committed by the trial judge. We shall first delve into the records to ascertain the facts and procedure that obtained at the trial court.
The records show that on April 26, 2010, the appellee instituted an

Abi Jaoudi Supermarket & Azar Trading Corporation v. His Honor Yamie Gbeisay and the Testate Estate of King et al (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Yuo / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Abi Jaoudi Supermarket & Azar Trading Corporation v. His Honor Yamie Gbeisay and the Testate Estate of King et al (08/14/2025)

This appeal is from the ruling of our esteemed Colleague, Madam Justice Jamesetta H. Wolokolie, who presided in Chambers during the March Term of Court, A.D. 2022. The Justice in Chambers, upon hearing had on the petition for the issuance of the writ of certiorari, quashed the alternative writ, and denied the issuance of the peremptory writ of certiorari prayed for by the appellant, Abi Jaoudi Supermarket & Azar Trading Corporation.

The pertinent facts as culled from the records reveal that on January 6, 2021, the appellees, the Testate Estates of Etmonia L. King, Nancy E. Cooper, John H. Richards, and

Esther K. Venn vs. Marie Johnson and Thomas Yaya Nimley (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Esther K. Venn vs. Marie Johnson and Thomas Yaya Nimley (08/14/2025)

Our review of the records of this case reveals that the appellant, Madam Esther K. Venn, plaintiff in the court below, filed a complaint against the appellees, Marie Johnson, Thomas Yaya Nimely and James Gibson, defendants below, alleging that she, appellant, is the owner of ten (10) acres of land lying in the Township of Duazon which she acquired in 1994; that upon visiting the subject property in 2010, she discovered that the appellees, Marie Johnson and Thomas Yaya Nimley, had constructed on portion of the land without her consent, while co-appellee James Gibson was constructing a structure thereon; that

Abdullah Sonnie and Sadia Fon vs. Peter King et.al (08/14/2025) 0

2025 Opinins / Justice Yuo / Recent Decisions

14 Aug, 2025

Abdullah Sonnie and Sadia Fon vs. Peter King et.al (08/14/2025)

The parties before this Court for the determination on this motion to dismiss an appeal, are Abdullah Sonnie and Sadia Fon, the movants and Peter King et. al, the respondents herein.

The records certified to this Court show that on June 13, 2024, the final ruling of the trial judge of the Monthly and Probate Court for Montserrado County was delivered, granting the petition filed by the movants to amend letters of administration by removing Peter King et. al, the respondents herein as administrators of the Intestate Estate of Robert King, whereupon, the respondents noted exceptions to this final ruling and

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