RULING
This is an application under Rules 4, 76 and 77 of the Court of Appeal Rules in essence for extension of time within which to serve a notice of appeal and for dispensation of service of the notice of appeal on some affected parties.
The applicants who are wrongly named as petitioners in the application filed a winding-up petition in the High Court at Bungoma being Winding Up Petition No. 1 of 2009 seeking an order to wind up Mumias Outgrowers Company [1998] Ltd (company) on the ground that the company was insolvent. Upon the advertisement of the petition, various parties including Equity Bank Ltd gave a notice of intention to appear on the hearing of the petition. Equity Bank Ltd indicated in its notice that it was a creditor of the company owed Kshs.28.716,930/- while Mumias Sugar Company Ltd which also gave a notice of intention to appear claimed to be a creditor for Kshs.818,869,440/- On its part, Eri Supplies Ltd gave a notice of intention to appear claiming that it was a cr…