<p class="ql-align-center">REPUBLIC OF KENYA</p><p class="ql-align-center"> IN THE COURT OF APPEAL</p><p class="ql-align-center"> AT NAIROBI</p><p class="ql-align-center"> (CORAM: AKIWUMI, SHAH and BOSIRE JJ.A)</p><p class="ql-align-center"> CIVIL APPEAL NO.213 OF 1997</p><p class="ql-align-center"> BETWEEN</p><p class="ql-align-center">JOHN GITATA MWANGI .......................................... IST APPELLANT</p><p class="ql-align-center">JOSEPH NJOROGE MWANGI ............................... 2ND APPELLANT</p><p class="ql-align-center">STEPHEN NJUGUNA MWANGI .............................. 3RD APPELLANT</p><p class="ql-align-center">CHRISTOPHER MWAURA MWANGI ..................... 4TH APPELLANT</p><p class="ql-align-center">AND</p><p class="ql-align-center">JONATHAN NJUGUNA MWANGI ......................... IST RESPONDENT</p><p class="ql-align-center">PETER KABATA MWANGI ....................................2ND RESPONDENT</p><p class="ql-align-center">HANNAH WANGARI KINUTHIA ......................... 3RD RESPONDENT</p><p class="ql-align-center">SAMUEL GATITU ................................................. 4TH RESPONDENT</p><p class="ql-align-center">HELLEN WAMBUI ................................................ 5TH RESPONDENT</p><p class="ql-align-center">(An Appeal from the Ruling and Order of the High Court of Kenya of (Honorable Justice E.C. Githinji) dated 16th April, 1997</p><p class="ql-align-center">in</p><p class="ql-align-center">H.C.C.C. No.494 of 1994)</p><p class="ql-align-center"> **************</p><p class="ql-align-center">JUDGMENT OF AKIWUMI, J.A.</p><p class="ql-align-justify">The facts of this case are sufficiently set out in the jud…</p>