[2017] KEELC 3761 (KLR)

[2017] KEELC 3761 (KLR)

The court adopted the consent of the parties as the judgment of the court, thereby issuing a permanent injunction restraining the defendants from interfering with the plaintiff's ownership, use, occupation, and possession of the specified land parcels. The consent further provided that each party would bear their...

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Citation
[2017] KEELC 3761 (KLR)
Parties
Plaintiff: Charles Kithinji Thuranira; Defendant: Kaigera M'Itwamikwa; Defendant: Pius Mukaria
Court
Environment and Land Court
Court Station
Environment and Land Court at Meru
Jurisdiction
Kenya
Case Number
Environment & Land Case 6B of 2012
Procedural Posture
Land and Environment Case / Consent Judgment
Outcome
Suit settled by consent; permanent injunction granted; each party to bear own costs.
Judges
LN Mbugua
Legal Topics
Injunctions, Trespass, Land Ownership, Possession Rights
Source Language
en
Land and Property Injunctions Trespass Land Ownership Possession Rights

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Parties

Charles Kithinji Thuranira

Plaintiff

Kaigera M'Itwamikwa

Defendant

Pius Mukaria

Defendant

Procedural Posture

Land and Environment Case / Consent Judgment

Legal Issues

  1. 1 Whether the defendants should be permanently restrained from interfering with the plaintiff's ownership, use, occupation, and possession of specified land parcels.
  2. 2 Whether each party should bear their own costs.

Ratio Decidendi

The court adopted the consent of the parties as the judgment of the court, thereby issuing a permanent injunction restraining the defendants from interfering with the plaintiff's ownership, use, occupation, and possession of the specified land parcels. The consent further provided that each party would bear their own costs. The court recognized that the dispute had been amicably settled and that the terms of the consent were clear, lawful, and enforceable. The adoption of the consent as judgment resolved all issues in the suit, and no further orders were necessary beyond those agreed by the parties.

Court Disposition

Suit settled by consent; permanent injunction granted; each party to bear own costs.

Orders

  • A permanent order of injunction is issued restraining the defendants, their agents, servants, and/or employees or whomsoever acting on their behalf or instructions from entering, invading, moving into, trespassing upon, demanding and harvesting plaintiff's crops planted in land parcels Nos. Abothuguchi/Ruiga/1828,...
  • Each party to meet his own costs of the suit.