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STEPHEN KAGUKU MARIBA
V.
KIBE MARIBA (LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET MAGIRI - DECEASED) & ANOTHER

(2007) JELR 93375 (CA)

Court of Appeal 2 Feb 2007 Kenya
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Suit Number:Civil Appeal 188 of 2002
Judges:Philip Kiptoo Tunoi, Samuel Elikana Ondari Bosire, William Shirley Deverell
Location:Nairobi
Other Citations:STEPHEN KAGUKU MARIBA v. KIBE MARIBA (Legal Representative of the Estate of Margaret Magiri - Deceased) & ANOTHER [2007] eKLR

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

This is an appeal by the 2nd defendant, now the appellant, from the judgment and decree of the superior court (Hon. Ransley, Comm. of Assize) given on 23rd January, 2002, whereby the learned Comm. of Assize entered judgment for the plaintiff, the 1st respondent, declaring him, inter alia, to have obtained title to half share of the suit land known as Kiganjo/Kiganjo/110 by adverse possession.

The facts in the case may be stated thus. Before the advent of land adjudication and registration in Kiganjo the original owner of the suit land was one GACHOKA KAGUKU who had several sons, among them MBIRI GACHOKA and DANIEL GACHOKA. It is the plaintiff’s case that Mbiri Gachoka died in or about 1935 and his wife Margaret Magiri and her children, including the 1st respondent Kibe Mariba, were then absorbed into Daniel Gachoka’s household after Margaret was inherited as a wife. It is also the plaintiff’s case that on registration the land belonging to Mbiri Gachoka and inherit…

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