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…defendant to refund to the plaintiff Kshs.50,000/= with interest at Commercial rate of 20% per annum from 30th April, 1982 till payment in full; ii) the 1st defendant be ordered to pay general and special damages for the breach…

…of contract entered into between the plaintiff and the 1st defendant on 30th April, 1982.…

…JUDGMENT The respondent sued the appellant in the lower court seeking damages both special and general for injuries sustained in an accident while at his place of work with the defendant and which accident occurred as a result of…

…the breach of contract and duty to him and also due to negligence whose particulars he gave.…

…In a suit filed in that Court on 21st January 1992 the plaintiff, now the respondent, claimed from the defendant, now the appellant, both general and special damages for breach of contract.…

…The plaintiff was therefore entitled to damages, basically for breach of contract, but also in sounding in detinue. But the measure of damages must be subject to some restraint.…

…The plaintiff was therefore entitled to damages, basically for breach of contract, but also in sounding in detinue. But the measure of damages must be subject to some restraint.…

…Moreover, he continued, section 27, assuming it does apply to contracts, would not apply to every breach of a contractual duty, for example it would not apply to a breach of contract for the sale of goods or of land.…

…The court should therefore lean toward giving the section a purposive effect, because to do so would still permit the six years’ period of limitation under section 4(1) to operate in actions for breach of contract which do…

…The appellant sued his employer, Coastal Bottlers Limited, the respondent, for damages for his injuries incurred in an accident at their premises which he claimed were the consequence of its negligence and or breach of contract…