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…The defendant is a limited liability company carrying on the business of insurance brokers.…

…The reinsurers refused to pay the underwriters and repudiated liability.…

…He did not seem to seriously contend his client’s liability under the Transfer of the charge, but submitted that Ex A operated as an effective and valid discharge of the loan.…

…It lacks any details as to which liability was discharged. It has no details about the subject matter showing that it does appertain to the transactions in question. The company might have had several ….…

…Anyway she decided to check into a 5-star hotel and incurred a liability when from her own admission she had no intention of personally settling the account right from the beginning.…

…Mr Ojiambo who appears for Hilton has submitted before me that as the liability was incurred by the plaintiff and remains unsettled to this day Hilton is entitled to retain the jewellery until the bill is paid.…

…The trial magistrate further found that the appellant did not obtain any declaration absolving it from liability under Section 10(4) of Cap 405.…

…However, that policy even assuming that it existed, did not in any way limit the liability of the appellant. 14.…

…The question of res IPSaLoquitus also arose in the case of Msuri Muhiddin v Nazzar Bin Saif (1960) E A 201 and there the question of what the defendant should do in order to avoid liability on a presumption of negligence…

…Sir Alistain Forbes V. – as he then was – said at page 207:- “In light of the dicta set out I accept (counsel for the respondents) proposition that the respondents can avoid liability if they can show either that there was…

…I think that such a waiver would not legally impose liability on defendant to refund the deposit contrary to the terms of the agreement of 20.11.85.…

…There would therefore be no liability against the defendant on the basis of pleadings.…

…having been found to be mere smokescreen defence and averments, they were struck out as shown and intended merely to postpone the inevitable pay-day, and as being an abuse of the process of the court; whereupon judgment on liability…

…Following that finding of liability, the plaintiff set down the case for assessment of damages. This judgment is in that respectively.…

…having been found to be mere smokescreen defence and averments, they were struck out as shown and intended merely to postpone the inevitable pay-day, and as being an abuse of the process of the court; whereupon judgment on liability…

…Following that finding of liability, the plaintiff set down the case for assessment of damages. This judgment is in that respectively.…

…In CivilApplication NO. 1871/85 in which Dugdale J. held inter alia: "The biggest problem in this case is that of vicarious liability.…

…Thereforevicarious liability cannot be attributed to the defendant and the claim mustfail". Mr.…

…The documents filed on behalf of the petitioner in response to the application have not shown any admission of liability on behalf of the company. Invoices alone do not prove any indebtedness.…

…As the goods were supplied in 1996 to 1997, the company does not show liability has ever been disputed. In the application and affidavit, they do not show they are prepared to return the goods.…

…It is his stand that since the evidence is not challenged liability is established.…

…On the assessment of evidence on liability I find that the suit is not contested and in terms of Order 6 rule 9(1) of the Civil Procedure Rules the defendant is deemed to have admitted the allegations of the plaintiff save…

…citing 4 grounds of appeal namely that the learned senior Resident Magistrate erred in law and in fact in failing to find that the plaintiff contributed to the said accident and thereby arrived at an erroneous decision on liability…

…I find that liability was well established as found by the trial magistrate that there is no denial that the respondent was an employee of the appellant and he was injured on duty and was paid workmans compensation.…

…I find that the evidence before me that liability has been admitted by the defendants at 85%. None of the parties mentioned whether the defendants No. 2 and 3 were prosecuted as stated in the plaint.…

…I hereby enter judgement for the plaintiff against the defendant on liability at the ratio of 15.85% as agreed by the parties.…

…The degree of liability was assessed at 65%. In this case the disability was not included by the doctor. In a summary:- I hereby enter judgement of the plaintiff on 100% liability against the defendants.…

…On receipt of same, the company through its advocates denied liability and asked for particulars as to how the debt was incurred.…

…The company opposes the petition and liability on the grounds that it never requested for such services. At the hearing, Mr Ngunjiri advanced a number of arguments against the continuation of the petition.…

…Its liability is only vicarious. The firm incur liability only if judgment is recovered against the tortbearer.…

…If he is absolved from liability, the firm’s contingent liability goes with it. If he is held liable on the principle of “respondent superior”.…

….…………….PLAINTIFF VERSUS MIUGU GENERAL TRANSPORT CO LTD………………DEFENDANT JUDGMENT The plaintiff herein Chinga Tea Factory Company Ltd, a limited liability company, sued the defendant, Miugu General Transport Company Ltd, also…

…a limited liability company, for loss and damage caused to their consignment of 240 chests of tea which the defendant was transporting from the plaintiff’s factory at Chinga along the Murang’a/Chinga road for delivery to…

…Accordingly both liability andquantum are issues for determination in this trial. I will beginwith a consideration of the issue of liability. In brief the evidence on behalf of the plaintiff is this.…

…I would apportion liability between the defendant andthe deceased in the proportions of forty (40) per cent and sixty (60) per cent to the disadvantage of the deceased.…

…The denial on behalf of the first defendant on liability advanced through Mr Ohore DW1 cannot withstand the material evidence before the Court. Vicarious liability shall therefore attach on the first defendant.…