SANKEY v. ONAYIFEKE [2014] ALL FWLR. PART 749. PG. 1045.
The court in this case held thus:
"Documentary Evidence remains the best evidence through which claims in court can easily be proved and disproved."
"Documentary evidence is the hanger or yardstick upon which oral evidence by witnesses in an action are assessed. Therefore, oral evidence by a party and/or his witnesses proferred in relation to a document already admitted in evidence at his instance, must be in tandem with that document which cannot be varied, altered or added to by oral evidence. In other words, oral evidence is to throw more light on the documentary evidence/exhibit".
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