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…On that day the late Mr Githieya appeared for the plaintiff and Mr Jiwaji for the defendant, when Mr Jiwaji applied for an adjournment on the ground that he had been served with replying affidavit only a day before.…

…The adjournment was granted and the matter stood over generally. After being thus stood over generally nobody seems to have taken any other action thereon.…

…Njoroge then made an application for adjournment on two main grounds:- 1.…

…Gikandi argued that any adjournment beyond that would render his clients application nugatory.He said that the application must be heard and a ruling given before 7.01.10 since the CoE must present their report to the 3rdRespondent…

…DEPUTY REGISTRAR HIGH COURT – CIVIL MOMBASA” Upon adjournment at the last appearance of the matter in court, I carefully looked through the voluminous court file but did not find any Notice of withdrawal or discontinuance…

…The latter’s application for adjournment to enable him to file grounds of opposition and an affidavit in reply to that in support of the application was refused for reasons which appear in an earlier ruling.…

…In any case as I have said counsel did not apply for adjournment on the ground that he had not been given enough notice. That argument has only been advanced in this appeal.…

…However, counsel then holding brief for the appellant’s counsel, Miss Mwangi, asked for an adjournment as Mr Ghadialy was engaged elsewhere and pointed out significantly, that the suit had been stayed by consent of both parties…

…Mr Ghadialy then sought an adjournment to enable him to file a defence which he had not been required to file in view of the fact that stay of proceedings had been ordered by consent within the context of section 6 of the…

…It does not appear the matter had been mentioned on March 13, 1984 but when the matter came up the advocate for appellants asked for an adjournment to April 17, 1984.…

…On April 10, 1985, the appellants appeared in person when the three motions were adjourned to be heard on April 19, 1985.…

…An application was made for an adjournment so that the defence could call him. The application was disallowed; so to that the failure to call him cannot be attributed to any deliberate withholding of a witness.…

…He should have done, if only to ask for an adjournment, if necessary, when it began to turn into a formal proof exercise.…

…Such provisions as to contents and form of election petition, appointment of advocate by petitioner and respondent, service on the respondent, time and place of trial, postponment of trial, adjournment and continuation of…