IN THE COURT OF APPEAL
AT MOMBASA
(CORAM: HANCOX CJ, GACHUHI and KWACH JJ A)
CIVIL APPEAL NO 40 OF 1989
KENYA MEAT COMMISSION......................... APPELLANT
VERSUS
RICHARD AMBOGO RADEN ..................... RESPONDENT
(From a judgment and decree of the High Court at Mombasa, Bosire J,
dated the 25th November 1988 in High Court Civil Case No 490 of1984)
JUDGMENTS
Hancox CJ. This appeal arises out of an accident that occurred to the respondent plaintiff while a casual labourer at the Mombasa factory of the Kenya Meat Commission on the 20th July, 1981. Though the plaint was filed some three years later in June, 1984, it did not come to trial until October, 1988, after which Bosire, J in a judgment dated 25th
November, 1988, found for the plaintiff on liability and assessed the damages for the injury to his right thumb at Shs 70,189.00, to include Shs 1,326.50 by way of special damages, but discounting Shs 1,137.25 paid under the Workman’s Compensation Act Cap 234. In personal injury cases there…