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JUDGMENT
This appeal relates to the estate of Geoffrey Kahura Njoroge (deceased), who died intestate on 16th January 2010. The respondents were issued with letters of administration intestate on 21st July 2011 in Limuru Succession Cause No. 59 0f 2010. By an application for revocation of grant dated 11th October 2011 filed in the High Court in Nairobi, the appellants sought revocation of the grant on the grounds that the proceedings leading to the issuance of the grant were defective in substance ab initio; that the letters of administration were obtained fraudulently by the making of a false statement and by concealment of facts material to the case; and that the grant was obtained by means of an untrue allegation of a fact essential in point of law to justify the grant.
In the affidavit in support of the summons for revocation of grant sworn by the 1st appellant, the appellants contended that the deceased was polygamous and had left two houses. That the first house comprised the 1st r…