[2007] KEHC 1854 (KLR)
The court found that it is not desirable to have two separate succession causes relating to the same estate. To avoid confusion and ensure proper administration, the court ordered consolidation of the two causes, cancellation of the previously issued grants, and issuance of a fresh grant in the names of both...
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- Citation
- [2007] KEHC 1854 (KLR)
- Parties
- Applicant: Mary Mbone Mutoka; Respondent: Jascintar Xavier Khatiakala
- Court
- High Court
- Court Station
- High Court at Kakamega
- Jurisdiction
- Kenya
- Case Number
- Miscellaneous Succession Cause 216 of 2005
- Procedural Posture
- Succession Cause / Ruling on Consolidation and Grant Cancellation
- Outcome
- Application for consolidation allowed; previous grants cancelled; fresh joint grant to be issued.
- Legal Topics
- Succession, Letters of Administration, Estate Consolidation
- Source Language
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Parties
Mary Mbone Mutoka
Applicant
Jascintar Xavier Khatiakala
Respondent
Procedural Posture
Succession Cause / Ruling on Consolidation and Grant Cancellation
Legal Issues
- 1 Whether two succession causes can subsist in respect of the same estate.
- 2 Whether the grants issued in both causes should be cancelled and a fresh grant issued jointly.
Ratio Decidendi
The court found that it is not desirable to have two separate succession causes relating to the same estate. To avoid confusion and ensure proper administration, the court ordered consolidation of the two causes, cancellation of the previously issued grants, and issuance of a fresh grant in the names of both administratrices. This ensures that the estate is administered jointly and in accordance with the law, preventing parallel proceedings and conflicting decisions regarding the same estate.
Court Disposition
Application for consolidation allowed; previous grants cancelled; fresh joint grant to be issued.
Orders
- Succession Cause No. 216 of 2005 and Succession Cause No. 307 of 2005 are consolidated.
- The grants of letters of administration issued in both causes are cancelled.
Full Case Text
Judgment text and source record
16 paragraphs
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA
AT KAKAMEGA
Succession Cause 216 of 2005
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF THE LATEPETER NGUSALE MUTOKA
BETWEEN
MARY MBONE MUTOKA………………………….…………… PETITIONER
AND
JASCINTAR XAVIER KHATIAKALA ……………………………OBJECTOR
RULING
Mary Mbone Mutoka, the Petitioner in succession cause No. 216 of 2005 urged the court on 22. 10. 2007 to consolidate that cause with Succession cause No. 307 of 2005 because they both relate to the same estate (of Peter Ngusale Mutoka, deceased).
In cause No. 216 of 2005, the Grant Letters of Administration Intestate was made on 6. 7.2005 to Mary Mbone Mutoka while in cause No. 307 of 2005, the Grant of Letters of Administration was made on 31. 1.2006 to Jacinter Xaviers Khatiakala.
It is not desirable that there be two succession causes in respect of the same estate. Accordingly, I order that the two causes be consolidated and the two grants aforesaid be cancelled and a fresh Grant issued in the names of the two administratrices.
Delivered at Kakamega this 22nd day of November, 2007.
G. B. M. KARIUKI
J U D G E