FRANCISCA NDUKU MOSU V. ALFRED MUTUNGA MATHEKA & ESTHER MUMBE MATHEKA
(2024) JELR 112254 (CA)
Court of Appeal
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CIVIL APPLICATION NO. NAI. E046 OF 2024
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12 Jul 2024
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Kenya
Coram
S. GATEMBU KAIRU, FCIArb, JA
J. LESIIT, JA
G.W. NGENYE-MACHARIA, JA
Judgement
<p style="text-align: center"><strong><u>RULING OF THE COURT</u></strong></p><ol><li><p style="text-align: justify">In her application dated 8th February 2024, the applicant,Ā Francisca Nduku Mosu, who maintains that she is theĀ widow of Meshack Mwanzia Matheka, deceased, in respectĀ of whose estate the succession proceedings relate, hasĀ applied for orders to stay implementation of the ruling andĀ orders of the High Court given on 21st November 2023 byĀ <em>āensuring there is no distribution of the estate, eviction fromĀ any property or interference with the current status quo inĀ regard to the estateā </em>pending the hearing and determinationĀ of her intended appeal. She intends to appeal against theĀ ruling delivered on 21st November 2023 in which the HighĀ Court (<strong><em>E. K. Ogola, J</em></strong>.) dismissed her Summons forĀ Revocation of Grant dated 5th April 2011 issued to theĀ respondents, Esther Mumbe Matheka and Alfred Mutunga Matheka, the mother and brother respectively of theĀ deceased.Ā </p></li><li><p style="text-align: justify">The background, in brief, is that the deceased died on 5th February 2007. The applicant, asserting to be the wiā¦</p></li></ol>