Category: Recent Decisions

Benetta Pearson-Cooper et al v Milton D Taylor (02/17/2025) 0

Benetta Pearson-Cooper et al v Milton D Taylor (02/17/2025)

When this case was called for a hearing, the counsel representing the plaintiffs-in-error, Benetta Pearson-Cooper et al., was absent. Upon Inquiry, the Clerk of the Court informed the Court that Counsellor Laveli Supuwood verbally informed the Clerk that he had a stomach complain and would return for the hearing after attending to his stomach issue. The Court invoked Rule IV Part 6 of the Revised Rule of the Supreme Court, which states in part that “…If, when the case is again called for hearing, the party or counsel again fails to appear or file a brief, the Court shall proceed

Atty. Lamii Kpargoi v. His Honor Scheaplor R. Dunbar (02/17/2025) 0

Atty. Lamii Kpargoi v. His Honor Scheaplor R. Dunbar (02/17/2025)

The facts as culled from the records reveal that Attorney Lamii Kpargoi, appellant herein, filed a petition for legitimization of Tenneh F. Kpargoi, a minor who he claims to be his child in the monthly and probate court for Montserrado County, seeking to legitimize the child as his for all legal and beneficial intents and purposes. The child’s mother, Miss Beatrice Kemokai, appellee herein, filed an objection to the said petition for legitimization by and thru her attorneys-in-fact, Yatta Walker, Emmanuel Hoff and Runetta P. Scott because she is out of the bailiwick of Liberia.

The appellant in his petition

Siaka A. Turay v. Ma Konneh Kamara, et, al.(12/19/2024) 0

Siaka A. Turay v. Ma Konneh Kamara, et, al.(12/19/2024)

On July 17, 2024, the movant, Siaka Turay, filed this motion to dismiss the respondents, Ma Konneh Kamara et al., appeal, averring therein that the movant instituted an action of ejectment against the respondents and all occupants under her control on the 27th Day of January 2023 at the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court; movant further averred that after pleadings rested, and considering that the parties derived their titles from the same grantors and that the movant’s title is older than that of the respondents, the movant filed a motion for summary judgment, which was heard and granted by

NPA v. James R. Bernard, Gabriel Bull, et. al. (12/19/2024) 0

NPA v. James R. Bernard, Gabriel Bull, et. al. (12/19/2024)

It is the law that “when actions involving a common question of law or fact are pending before a court of record, the court, upon motion of any party or sua sponte, may order a joint trial of any or all the matters in issue or the consolidation of the actions; and it may make such other orders concerning proceedings therein as may tend to avoid unnecessary costs or delay.” Civil Procedure Law, Revised Code 1:6.3; also see the case: Attorney Garrison Doldeh Yearlu, Jr. et al., v. The Executive Branch of Government, Supreme Court Opinion, March Term, A.D. 2024.

Kumba Bendu and Sons v. His Honor James E. Jones et. al (12/19/2025) 0

Kumba Bendu and Sons v. His Honor James E. Jones et. al (12/19/2025)

This appeal grows out of the ruling of our distinguished colleague, His Honor Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay, Sr., Justice presiding in Chambers, in a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Kumba Bendu and Sons, appellee herein, alleging substantially that the Judge of the Debt Court of Montserrado County, proceeded to close down its businesses, and businesses belonging to its tenants, based on an action of debt filed by the Intestate Estate of John N. Lewis, the appellant herein, against Mr. Eric Wellington of ERICO World Wide Venture, (hereinafter known as ERICO) without any notice to the appellee as the

Intestate Estate of Kaifa Kamara v. Intestate Estate of Rebecca Thomas (12/19/2024) 0

Intestate Estate of Kaifa Kamara v. Intestate Estate of Rebecca Thomas (12/19/2024)

This case was heard and decided by the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court, then presided over by our distinguished colleague, His Honor Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay, Sr., then serving as a Circuit Judge. The trial court heard the petition and granted the same. The movant, the late Kaifa Kamara, entered exceptions to the final ruling, announced an appeal therefrom, and perfected the same. While this appeal is pending, the movant filed a five-count motion for newly discovered evidence, claiming therein that the trial judge introduced out-of-court evidence in reaching his final ruling in the case and, therefore, the movant is praying the

Foday Conneh et. al. v Republic of Liberia (12/19/2024) 0

Foday Conneh et. al. v Republic of Liberia (12/19/2024)

On the 27th day of November 2020, the Grand Jury for Montserrado County, sitting in its November Term, returned a True Bill charging the appellants, Foday Conneh, David Conneh, J. Boimah Sambolah, Mohammed Bah (Buyer) and Surveyor to be identified, with the crimes of Criminal Conveyance of Land and Criminal Conspiracy, a felony of the second degree. The Indictment averred that, on the 25th day of May A.D. 2020, in the Coffee Farm Community, Township of Caldwell, defendants Foday Conneh and Boimah Sambolah were arrested, acquainted with their Constitutional Rights, investigated and subsequently charged with the commission of the crimes

DENNIS DUKULY V. REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA (12/19/2024) 0

DENNIS DUKULY V. REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA (12/19/2024)

Pursuant to section 15.2 of the Criminal Procedure Law, the Grand Jury for Lofa County, sitting in its November Term, A. D. 2013, returned a true bill on the 13th day of November 2013, charging the appellant, Dennis Dukuly, with the Crimes of Statutory Rape and Murder, both charges being felony of the first degree. We here quote the two counts of the indictment as follows:

Yekeh Koluba v. House of Representative (12/19/2024) 0

Yekeh Koluba v. House of Representative (12/19/2024)

On November 8, 2021, the informant herein, Hon. Yekeh Kolubah, filed a five (5) count bill of information before the then Chambers Justice, Mr. Justice Yussif D. Kaba, alleging therein that the respondent, The House of Representatives, by and thru Hon Bhofal Chambers, the erstwhile Speaker of the House of Representatives of the 54th Legislature, had failed to comply with an agreement that both the informant and the respondent had entered into, pursuant to a petition for the Writ of Prohibition that had been filed by the informant.
The informant alleged that in June, 2021 he filed the aforementioned petition

Victoria Johnson Maxwell v. Her Honor Golda Bonah-Elliott (12/19/2024) 0

Victoria Johnson Maxwell v. Her Honor Golda Bonah-Elliott (12/19/2024)

On August 14, 2024, the informant herein, the Intestate Estate of Victoria Johnson Maxwell, represented by its administrators, Charles Johnson, Jr., and Fredrick E. R. Johnson, filed before the Supreme Court of Liberia a (14) count bill of information. The informant alleged inter alia, that although the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court, Montserrado County, fully executed the Mandate of the Honorable Supreme Court of Liberia, growing out of a Judgment Without Opinion entered on April 7, 2015, in the case: “The Intestate Estate of Thomas Wesley Philips v. Mr. Jessie S. Payne, Sr., Attorney-In-Fact for Victoria Johnson Maxwell”, the