JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
This is an interlocutory appeal. The first three appellants, namely, Moses Mbugua Mwangi, Peter Mureithi Kungu, and Charles Kiarie, are licensed coffee planters and growers, while Gitwe Coffee Co-operative Society, the 4th appellant, and Kaweithei Farmers Co-operative Society, the 5th appellant, respectively, are Coffee Co-operative Societies. Each appellant markets his or its coffee through the Coffee Board of Kenya, the respondent, which is a body corporate with perpetual succession established under the Coffee Act Cap 333, Laws of Kenya . For convenience we shall hereafter refer to that Act simply as the Coffee Act. It was common ground that the respondent is a state corporation as defined under State Corporations Act, Cap 446 Laws of Kenya .
This appeal is from the order of the superior court made on 17th January, 2000 in its CIVIL SUIT NO. 54 OF 2000 declining to grant an interlocutory injunction to the appellants to stop the holding of a delegates' conference…