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JOSEPH MUNG'AYA MAKOTSI & ANOR
V.
KENYA POWER & LIGHTING COMPANY LIMITED & 2 ORS

(2019) JELR 97398 (CA)

Court of Appeal 9 May 2019 Kenya
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Suit Number:Civil Appeal 29 of 2015 & 1 of 2018 (Consolidated)
Judges:Erastus Mwaniki Githinji, Hannah Magondi Okwengu, Jamila Mohammed
Location:Eldoret
Other Citations:Joseph Mung'aya Makotsi & another v. Kenya Power & Lighting Company Limited & 2 others [2019] eKLR

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

[1] Civil Appeal No. 1 of 2018 has been consolidated with Civil Appeal No. 29 of 2015. Two judgments were delivered in High Court Civil Suit No. 8 of 2012. The first judgment was delivered by Munyao Sila, J. on 12th November, 2014. The second judgment was delivered by A. Ombwayo, J. on 18th August, 2017. Civil Appeal No. 29 of 2015 will be referred as the first appeal and Civil Appeal No. 1 of 2018 as the second appeal.

The first appeal is against the judgment of Munyao Sila, J. and the second appeal is from the judgment of A. Ombwayo, J.

[2] By an amended plaint dated 11th June, 2012, Joseph Mung’aya Makotsi (1st appellant) who is the appellant in the first appeal claimed that Kenya Power and Lighting Company Ltd (KPLC) referred to as the 2nd appellant and Rural Electrification Authority (REA) the 2nd respondent in both appeals who have an arrangement to supply power to rural population trespassed on his two pieces of land on two occasions, forcefully erected a pow…

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