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…The appellant received a sum of Shs 38,000 and so a claim on negligence was within his knowledge; the appellant knew he had been injured and that his employer should have supplied facilities for safety.…

…were attributable to that negligence, nuisance or breach of duty, or the extent to which any of those personal injuries were so attributable. (2) For the purpose of sections 27, 28 and 29 of this Act, any of the material…

…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…

…denying the allegations in the plaint, denied that there was breach of duty or contract between them, denied that an accident occurred as alleged, that if any accident occurred which is denied then the same was occasioned by negligence…

…He expressly found that the respondent was not guilty of any contributory negligence.…

…He thus answered in specle the only allegation of negligence which were really particular to this case, as opposed to the generalities to which I have just referred.…

…The defendants filed a defence in which they denied the negligence allegedly attributed to lst defendant and the particulars of it given in the plaint.…

…In the alternative they averred that the said accident was solely caused or substantially contributed to by the negligence f the plaintiff’s servant and / or agent for which the plaintiff was vicariously liable.…

…He said that although the delay was caused by an oversight on the part of the managing director of the appellant, this was not synonymous with deliberate negligence on his part.…

…That this act amounted to negligence on his part to warrant the dismissal of the application to set aside ex-parte judgment.…

…There was negligence on the part of the defendants although there has been no evidence to enable me to pinpoint the exact stage at which that negligence occurred as between the time the letter was sent out by the High Court…

…During that period the plaintiff lost the freedom which he should not have lost had there not been the negligence of the defendants.…

…In the instant case Mr Onyinkwa has submitted that negligence, in the sense that the instigator or the broker failed to check up and take ordinary precautions to ensure that the item attached was that of the debtor of loanee…

…In my judgment in the instant case there was extreme and actionable negligence exhibited by the AFC in ordering the seizure of the vehicle KLR 903, which did not belong to its loanee.…

…In his defence, the Defendant did not dispute the occurrence of the accident but averred that it was caused by the negligence of the driver of motor vehicle registration number KAH 293G.…

…The said accident was due to the negligence of the defendants, their servants and or agents whose particulars are given.…

…plaintiff pleaded that vehicle registration No KPG 866 was at the time of the accident owned by the 1st defendant but was being driven by the 2nd defendant and the plaintiff further averred that the accident occurred due to the negligence…