Facts:

The claimant brought an action at the High Court against the defendant on the ground that she conspired with certain unknown persons to dispossess her of six hundred bags of rice at a total cost of N1,680,000.00 (one million, six hundred and eighty thousand naira). According to her, the said unknown persons had fraudulently obtained the goods from her warehouse in Port Harcourt, sold it to the 1st defendant, who, in turn, passed the rice to the 2nd defendant, both being traders at Daleko market in Mushin, Lagos. The claimant’s case was that with the assistance of the police both in Port Harcourt and in Lagos, she was able to recover