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NISHITH YOGENDRA PATEL
V.
PASCALE MIREILLE BAKSH & ANOR

(2009) JELR 98660 (CA)

Court of Appeal 10 Jul 2009 Kenya
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- The dispute concerned three brothers over the ownership of three Nairobi properties registered as tenants in common in equal shares: LR. No. 37/243/2 and LR Nos. 4508/2 and 4884/2 (now LR. 12442 and 12826), known as Kigwa Farm. - Yogi Pat

Case Details

Suit Number:Civil Appli 264 of 2007
Judges:Riaga Samuel Cornelius Omolo, Daniel Kennedy Sultani Aganyanya, Philip Nyamu Waki
Location:Nairobi
Other Citations:NISHITH YOGENDRA PATEL v. PASCALE MIREILLE BAKSH & another [2009] eKLR

RULING OF THE COURT

There is a glaring abuse of the court process in this matter which this Court will not countenance and consequently, we must strike out the notice of motion before us. We shall explain shortly but, first, an overview of the substance of the matter.

The tussle is between three brothers over ownership of three properties in Nairobi namely: LR. No. 37/243/2, a residential property in Nairobi West, and LR Nos. 4508/2 and 4884/2 (now LR. 12442 and 12826, respectively) both of which are more popularly known as Kigwa Farm, an agricultural property measuring approximately 200 acres. It is common ground that all those properties are registered in the names of the three brothers as tenants in common in equal shares. Two of the brothers however died and were lawfully represented by their personal representatives before the dispute boiled over in 1995; that is to say, Professor Rajnikant Purshottam Patel (Raj) who died in Canada in 1983, and Prahladbhai Purshottam Patel (Prahlad…

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