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MWANASOKONI
V.
KENYA BUS SERVICES LTD

(1985) JELR 104501 (CA)

Court of Appeal 26 Jul 1985 Kenya
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Suit Number:Civil Appeal 35 of 1985
Judges:John Mwangi Gachuhi James Onyiego Nyarangi Alan Robin Winston Hancox
Location:Mombasa
Other Citations:Mwanasokoni v. kenya Bus Services Ltd [1985] eKLR

JUDGMENT

July 26, 1985, Hancox JA delivered the following Judgment.

The appellant sued in the High Court in Mombasa for damages for negligence arising out of an accident which occurred on March 24, 1978 at about 2.30 pm between an omnibus No KJV 719, belonging to the first respondents and that which was described as a country bus No KJT 047, belonging to the second respondents. She said she suffered an injury to her right eye as a result of flying glass, leading to the eventual loss of vision in that eye.

The two buses were driven at the material time by the third and fourth respondents respectively. There were four agreed issues of fact for decision by the learned judge, to which he added a fifth during the course of his judgment. He found that there was collision, in the sense of contact, between the two buses and that the rear view of the mirror bus, which presumably projected beyond the main body of Kenya bus, was damaged and its glass broken as a result.

The judge also found that the…

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