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BAKE N BITE LIMITED & ANOR
V.
BAKEHOUSE INVESTMENTS LIMITED

(2020) JELR 105842 (CA)

Court of Appeal 24 Apr 2020 Kenya
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Case Details

Suit Number:Civil Application 284 of 2019
Judges:William Ouko
Location:Nairobi
Other Citations:Bake N Bite (Nairobi) Limited & another v. Bakehouse Investments Limited [2020] eKLR

RULING

On the 26th day of October, 2016, Sewe, J entered a summary judgment in favour of the respondent in the sum of Kshs. 27,267,520 together with interest and costs after the learned Judge expressed satisfaction that, though served with summons to enter appearance together with the plaint, the applicants neither entered appearance nor filed a defence. The Judge was also persuaded, from the material before her that the applicants were truly indebted to the respondent, the former having explicitly acknowledged the indebtedness; and that there was overwhelming and incontrovertible documentary evidence to support the respondent’s claim. The applicants also failed to respond to the application for summary judgment, which was served on them on two different occasions. They too failed to attend court when the application came for hearing.

That ruling was made on 26th October, 2016. On 9th February, 2018, the 2nd applicant took out an application to ask the court to set aside or vary the afo…

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