JUDGMENT
Antique Auctions Limited (the appellant), a limited liability company, is a tenant (the tenant of the ground floor of the premises known as LR Number 209/1212/2, (Uniafric House) situated on Moktar Daddah Street, Nairobi. The landlord is the respondent, Pan African Insurance Company Limited, (the landlord). The tenant leased the said premises for its business since 1975, on a lease which was originally for three yeas and thereafter renewed or held over from time to time. The tenant used the premises for ordinary sale and/or by public auction of antique items and other items that it received from its clients.
In the said lease, the landlord covenanted under clause 3(b), inter alia, “to maintain in good and tenantable repair, the roof, outside walls, and the main structure of the building and the drains, downpipes, water mains, electrical circuits and sanitary apparatus ‘ thereof at all times during the said term of the said tenancy. It is pleaded that during the subsistence of t…