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SOLOMON K. NJUGUNA
V.
KENYA SAVINGS & MORTGAGES LTD & ANOR.

(1997) JELR 93590 (CA)

Court of Appeal 18 Aug 1997 Kenya
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Suit Number:Civil Appeal 53 of 1996
Judges:Akilano Molade Akiwumi, Amrittal Bhagwanji Shah, Samuel Elikana Ondari Bosire
Location:Nairobi
Other Citations:Solomon K. Njuguna v. Kenya Savings & Mortgages Ltd & another [1997] eKLR

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

The appellant, Solomon Kamau Njuguna, (the appellant) was the Plaintiff in Nai. High Court Civil case No. 1929 of 1988, and Savings and Mortgages Ltd, and Christine M. Gitau, (the first and second respondent respectively), were the defendants. That suit involved a parcel of land known as L. R. No. 37/749/8, situate in Nairobi. The appellant had charged it in favour of the 1st respondent to secure repayment by him of money the latter had advanced to him. The appellant’s case, as pleaded, was that the 1st respondent, in a wrongful exercise of their statutory right of sale, sold the land to the 2nd respondent and later transferred ownership to her. The sale was wrongful because no statutory notice was served on him before the sale, which in any event was irregular and in bad faith because the property was knocked down to the 2nd respondent at an unreasonably low price. He therefore prayed for a declaration that the sale was invalid, and for an order cancelling the 2n…

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