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MARGARET NCEKEI THURANIRA
V.
MARY MPINDA & ANOR

(2015) JELR 99308 (CA)

Court of Appeal 14 Oct 2015 Kenya
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Suit Number:Civil Appeal 13 of 2015
Judges:Philip Nyamu Waki, Roselyn Naliaka Nambuye, Patrick Omwenga Kiage
Location:Nyeri
Other Citations:Margaret Ncekei Thuranira v. Mary Mpinda & another [2015] eKLR

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

1. This is a first appeal against the Judgment, of J.A. Makau, J delivered at Meru High Court on the 13th day of November, 2014, in Meru succession cause Number 538/2009, in the matter of the Estate of Cosmas M’Thuranira M’Magiri (the deceased).

2. The Estate of the deceased comprised Land parcel number Kiirua/Naari/1363 (the suit land), registered in 1985 in the sole name of the deceased. The respondents Rebecca Karwitha M’Magiri and Mary Mpinda M’Magiri successfully filed Meru L.D.T. No. 59 of 2000 against the deceased claiming three acres each out of the suit land allegedly being land that had originally belonged to their deceased mother but in respect of which their deceased mother could not be registered as she had no identification card and which she caused to be included and registered in the deceased’s name. The deceased unsuccessfully appealed against the tribunal’s award to the Eastern Provincial Land Disputes Appeals Committee at Embu vide appeal No. 13…

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