GOPAL RAMJI LADHA PATEL V. CITY FINANCE BANK LIMITED

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL

AT NAIROBI

CIVIL APPEAL (APPLI.) NO. 156 OF 2003

GOPAL RAMJI LADHA PATEL ................................ APPELLANT

AND

CITY FINANCE BANK LIMITED ............................... RESPONDENT

(Appeal from the judgment and decree of the High Court of Kenya at Nairobi (Lady Justice Gacheche) dated 20^th January, 2003

in

H.C.C.C. NO. 807 OF 1999)

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R U L I N G

By this application expressed to be brought under Rule 4 of the Court’s Rules, the applicant, Purbhai Gopal Ramji Patel seeks two orders:

“1. That this Honourable Court be pleased to enlarge time upon which to file the application for substitution out of time.

2. That the applicant herein Purbai Gopal Ramji Patel do substitute the appellant herein Gopal Ramji Ladha Patel (deceased).

The respondent though duly served with the hearing notice through its counsel, was not represented before me when the application was called to hearing and hence I heard the applicant’s counsel only.

The applicant is the widow of …