JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
1. This is an appeal against the ruling of the High Court at Kitale (J. R. Karanja, J.) given on 15th July 2014 dismissing the appellant’s application for revocation or annulment of grant of letters of administration issued to the respondent in respect of the estate of Rehoboam Mwiiri Muna.
2. The facts appear to be as follows. The deceased, Rehoboam Mwiiri Muna, died on 17th August 1991. His wife, Elizabeth Wangui Mwiiri, who subsequently died on 29th March 2009, and their daughter Lydia Wangechi Macharia, the respondent in this appeal, survived him. Lydia Wangechi Macharia is the mother of the appellant, Dorcas Nyambura Njenga (Dorcas). Dorcas claims that she was one year seven months when her mother, the respondent, abandoned her and her brother, David Mungai Mwiiri, after which she and her brother David went to live with their grandparents, Rehoboam Mwiiri Muna and Elizabeth Wangui Mwiiri (Elizabeth).
3. Dorcas claims that upon the death of Rehoboam, her grandmo…