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SHIKUKU MASON SITERA & ANOR.
V.
BEN KUMBUTI WASILWA

(2017) JELR 93235 (CA)

Court of Appeal 20 Jul 2017 Kenya
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Suit Number:Civil Appeal 144 of 2013
Judges:Daniel Kiio Musinga, Agnes Kalekye Murgor, Stephen Gatembu Kairu
Location:Eldoret
Other Citations:Shikuku Mason Sitera & another v. Ben Kumbuti Wasilwa [2017] eKLR

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

1. This judgment is in respect of a ruling delivered by Ngenye Macharia, J. on 28thMarch, 2013 wherein the learned judge revoked a grant of representation that had been confirmed on 9th September, 2012 on grounds of concealment of material facts.

2. The background to the said ruling is that on 22ndMarch, 2012 Ben Kumbuti Wasilwa, the respondent herein, filed an application for revocation of a grant of representation to the estate of the late Wilson Wachenda Mason, also known as Wachenda Mason(the deceased), that was issued to Shikuku Mason Sitela (the 1st appellant), on the ground that the grant had been obtained by concealment from the court of matters material to the case.

3. In his affidavit in support of the summons for revocation of the grant, the respondent stated that the deceased sold to him his parcel of land known as Kakamega/Chekalini/238 and transferred the title to him. That notwithstanding the 1st appellant had included the said parcel of land among th…

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