IN THE COURT OF APPEAL FOR EAST AFRICA
AT NAIROBI
( Coram: Sir James Wicks CJ, Wambuzi and Law JJ A )
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 30 OF 1977
BETWEEN
DORIS MORGAN......................................................................APPELLANT
AND
F.STUBENITSKY....................................................................RESPONDENT
( Appeal against the Decision of Kneller J in the High Court Nairobi on 13th January 1977 Civil Case No 282 of 1975 )
JUDGMENT
The appellants, who are husband and wife, are the joint owners of a house in Nairobi, which they wanted to let. Accordingly, they placed an advertisement in a local newspaper on 22nd May 1974, in the following terms:
Riverside Drive pleasant executive house furnished three bedrooms, two bathrooms, one en suite, established flat, garden. Lovely trees. Immediate possession £175 to approved tenant. Voucher EAS/ 2852.
To this advertisement the respondent replied, on notepaper headed “World Bank. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Intern…